Modulating dopamine signaling and behavior with chemogenetics: concepts, progress, and challenges

AH Runegaard, CM Fitzpatrick, DPD Woldbye… - Pharmacological …, 2019 - ASPET
For more than 60 years, dopamine (DA) has been known as a critical modulatory
neurotransmitter regulating locomotion, reward-based motivation, and endocrine functions …

[HTML][HTML] Chemogenetics drives paradigm change in the investigation of behavioral circuits and neural mechanisms underlying drug action

A Ozawa, H Arakawa - Behavioural brain research, 2021 - Elsevier
Recent developments in chemogenetic approaches to the investigation of brain function
have ushered in a paradigm change in the strategy for drug and behavior research and …

[HTML][HTML] An intersectional approach to target neural circuits with cell-and projection-type specificity: validation in the mesolimbic dopamine system

N Kakava-Georgiadou, MM Zwartkruis… - Frontiers in Molecular …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Development of tools to manipulate activity of specific neurons is important for dissecting the
function of neural circuits. Viral vectors and conditional transgenic animal lines that target …

Toward a molecular understanding of psychostimulant actions using genetically engineered dopamine receptor knockout mice as model systems

J Zhang, M Xu - Journal of addictive diseases, 2001 - Taylor & Francis
A major focus in studying the progression and prevention of addictive diseases has been to
understand the molecular and cellular mechanisms underlying drug addiction. The brain …

Chemogenetic modulation of astrocytes and microglia: State‐of‐the‐art and implications in neuroscience

J Bossuyt, Y Van Den Herrewegen, L Nestor, A Buckinx… - Glia, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Insights into the role astrocytes and microglia play in normal and diseased brain functioning
has expanded drastically over the last decade. Recently, chemogenetic tools have emerged …

Chemogenetic signaling in space and time: considerations for designing neuroscience experiments using DREADDs

PJ Clark, ZD Brodnik, RA España - The Neuroscientist, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
The use of designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs (DREADDs) has led
to significant advances in our understanding of the neural circuits that govern behavior. By …

Deschloroclozapine, a potent and selective chemogenetic actuator enables rapid neuronal and behavioral modulations in mice and monkeys

Y Nagai, N Miyakawa, H Takuwa, Y Hori… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The chemogenetic technology designer receptors exclusively activated by designer drugs
(DREADDs) afford remotely reversible control of cellular signaling, neuronal activity and …

Chemogenetics for cell-type-specific modulation of signalling and neuronal activity

HJ Kang, T Minamimoto, J Wess, BL Roth - Nature Reviews Methods …, 2023 - nature.com
Chemogenetics is an approach for engineering proteins to enable their modulation by
otherwise inert small molecules. Although kinases, enzymes and ion channels have been …

The use of chemogenetic approaches in alcohol use disorder research and treatment

Y Cheng, J Wang - Alcohol, 2019 - Elsevier
Several novel techniques were developed recently to explore neural circuit mechanisms of
neuropsychiatric disorders. These techniques include the Designer Receptors Exclusively …

[PDF][PDF] Update 1 of: Recent progress in development of dopamine receptor subtype-selective agents: potential therapeutics for neurological and psychiatric disorders

N Ye, JL Neumeyer, RJ Baldessarini, X Zhen, A Zhang - Chem. Rev, 2013 - academia.edu
Dopamine (DA) is a critical neurotransmitter in the mammalian central nervous system
(CNS). The cerebral dopaminergic system is implicated in the pathophysiology of several …