Neurobiology of cocaine abuse.
Neurobiology of cocaine abuse.
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可卡因滥用的神经生物学。
DOI:
10.1016/0165-6147(92)90063-c
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发表时间:
1992
影响因子:
13.8
通讯作者:
Johnson,KM
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作者:
Woolverton,WL;Johnson,KM
The recent escalation of cocaine abuse has increased awareness of the need to understand the behavioral effects of cocaine and the determinants of those effects. Cocaine alters both conditioned and unconditioned behavior, and has prominent reinforcing and subjective effects that are particularly relevant to its abuse. An increase in CNS dopamine neurotransmission, resulting from a competitive blockade of high-affinity dopamine uptake mediated by both DI and D2 dopamine receptors, is a prima y determinant of the behavioral effects of cocaine. Either tolerance or sensitization may develop with repeated administration of cocaine. Dependence also develops, although the behavioral changes associated with cocaine withdrawal are subtle. Although numerous CNS changes have been associated with repeated administration of cocaine, the neuropharmacological mechanisms that underlie the behavioral changes that occur with repeated administration remain to be firmly established. Bill Woolverton and Ken Johnson stress that continued collaboration between behavioral pharmacologists and neuroscientists is critical for a complete understanding of the effects of cocaine.Cocaine consumption by humans has a long history. The leaves of the coca plant have been chewed by South American Indians for at least 1500 years. After the isolation of cocaine from the coca plant by Niemann in 1855, its powerful CNS stimulant and local anesthetic effects became widely appreciated. The ready commercial availability of cocaine and the newly invented hypodermic syringe was soon followed by problems of cocaine abuse in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After legal restrictions were put on cocaine in the USA (Harrison