CELL-TYPE-SPECIFIC ADAPTIONS IN STRIATAL MEDIUM-SIZED SPINY NEURONS AND THEIR ROLES IN BEHAVIORAL RESPONSES TO DRUGS OF ABUSE

Cell-Type-Specific Adaptions in Striatal Medium-Sized Spiny Neurons and Their Roles in Behavioral Responses to Drugs of Abuse

Drug addiction is defined as a compulsive pattern of drug-seeking- and taking- behavior, with recurrent episodes of abstinence and relapse, and a loss of control despite negative consequences.Addictive drugs promote reinforcement by increasing dopamine in the mesocorticolimbic system, which alters excitatory glutamate transmission within the reward

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Flow behavior over well-escape weirs

Weirs play an important role in controlling and managing water in irrigation canal networks through several functions, such as discharge measurements, water distribution, and lowering the water level.Weirs also play a crucial role in protecting canals from flooding, which might cause the earthen banks to collapse, by eliminating surplus water at th

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Troglostrongylus brevior and Troglostrongylus subcrenatus (Strongylida: Crenosomatidae) as agents of broncho-pulmonary infestation in domestic cats

Abstract Background Aelurostrongylus abstrusus is currently regarded as the main metastrongyloid infesting domestic cats, whereas the reports of Troglostrongylus spp.in domestic and wild felids largely remain anecdotic.This paper reports on pulmonary infestation caused by Troglostrongylus brevior and Troglostrongylus subcrenatus in two kittens and

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