Nicotine primes the effect of cocaine on the induction of LTP in the amygdala.
Huang YY, Kandel DB, Kandel ER, Levine A.
Huang YY, et al. Among authors: levine a.
Neuropharmacology. 2013 Nov;74:126-34. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2013.03.031. Epub 2013 Apr 15.
Neuropharmacology. 2013.
PMID: 23597510
We found that nicotine enhances significantly the changes in synaptic plasticity in the striatum induced by cocaine (Levine et al., 2011). Here we ask: does the metaplastic effect of nicotine on cocaine also apply in the amygdala, a brain region that is involved in …
We found that nicotine enhances significantly the changes in synaptic plasticity in the striatum induced by cocaine (Levine et al., 2 …