Applications in awake animal magnetic resonance imaging

CF Ferris - Frontiers in neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
There are numerous publications on methods and applications for awake functional MRI
across different species, eg, voles, rabbits, cats, dogs, and rhesus macaques. Each of these …

Endogenous opiates and behavior: 2013

RJ Bodnar - Peptides, 2014 - Elsevier
This paper is the thirty-sixth consecutive installment of the annual review of research
concerning the endogenous opioid system. It summarizes papers published during 2013 …

Fentanyl-induced changes in brain activity in awake nonhuman primates at 9.4 Tesla

SL Withey, L Cao, FB de Moura, KR Cayetano… - Brain Imaging and …, 2022 - Springer
Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) has been used to study the influence of
opioids on neural circuitry implicated in opioid use disorder, such as the cortico-striatal …

Neuroimaging of opioid exposure: a review of preclinical animal models to inform addiction research

HM Kamens, S Cramer, RN Hanley, S Chase… - …, 2023 - Springer
Opioid use results in thousands of overdose deaths each year. To address this crisis, we
need a better understanding of the neurobiological mechanisms that drive opioid abuse …

Convergent balancing selection on the mu-opioid receptor in primates

CG Sweeney, JM Rando, HN Panas… - Molecular biology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
The mu opioid receptor is involved in many natural processes including stress response,
pleasure, and pain. Mutations in the gene also have been associated with opiate and …

A functional polymorphism in the prodynorphin gene affects cognitive flexibility and brain activation during reversal learning

M Votinov, J Pripfl, C Windischberger… - Frontiers in behavioral …, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Whether the opioid system plays a role in the ability to flexibly adapt behavior is still unclear.
We used fMRI to investigate the effect of a nucleotide tandem repeat (68-bp VNTR) …

Imaging kappa opioid receptors in the living brain with positron emission tomography

MS Placzek - The Kappa Opioid Receptor, 2021 - Springer
Kappa opioid receptor (KOR) neuroimaging using positron emission tomography (PET) has
been immensely successful in all phases of discovery and validation in relation to …