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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6783
pubmed:dateCreated
2000-6-16
pubmed:abstractText
Modulation of substance P activity offers a radical new approach to the management of depression, anxiety and stress. The substance P receptor is highly expressed in areas of the brain that are implicated in these behaviours, but also in other areas such as the nucleus accumbens which mediate the motivational properties of both natural rewards such as food and of drugs of abuse such as opiates. Here we show a loss of the rewarding properties of morphine in mice with a genetic disruption of the substance P receptor. The loss was specific to morphine, as both groups of mice responded when cocaine or food were used as rewards. The physical response to opiate withdrawal was also reduced in substance P receptor knockout mice. We conclude that substance P has an important and specific role in mediating the motivational aspects of opiates and may represent a new pharmacological route for the control of drug abuse.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
May
pubmed:issn
0028-0836
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
11
pubmed:volume
405
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
180-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2003-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Cocaine, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Conditioning, Classical, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Corpus Striatum, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Cyclic AMP, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Female, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Locomotion, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Male, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Mice, Inbred C57BL, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Mice, Knockout, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Morphine, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Morphine Dependence, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Narcotics, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-fos, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Receptors, Dopamine D1, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Receptors, Dopamine D2, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Receptors, Neurokinin-1, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Receptors, Opioid, mu, pubmed-meshheading:10821273-Reward
pubmed:year
2000
pubmed:articleTitle
Rewarding effects of opiates are absent in mice lacking the receptor for substance P.
pubmed:affiliation
Instituto de Neurosciencias, Universidad Miguel Hernandez, Alicante, Spain.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article