CPDD 78th Annual Scientific Meeting Program

Monday, June 13, 2016
17 Chronic administration of nandrolone increases the liability to morphine dependence with no
correlation with LVV-hemorphin 7 in rats
E. Huang 1 , Y. Chen 3 , T. Huang 1 , L. Chow 2 , 1 Pharmacology, National Defense Medical Center,
Taiwan, Taipei, Taiwan, 2 Anesthesiology Department, Taipei Veterans General Hospital,
Taipei, Taiwan, 3 Department of Neurological Surgery, Tri-Service General Hospital, Taipei,
Taiwan
18 Anxiolytic-like and discriminative stimulus effects of benzodiazepine+neuroactive steroid
combinations in rats
B. W. Gunter 2,1 , S. A. Jones 1 , D. Platt 1 , J. K. Rowlett 1 , 1 University of Mississippi Medical
Center, Jackson, MS, 2 Vanderbilt University, Pegram, TN
19 Novel environment response as a predictor of midazolam self-administration in rats
J. E. Cook 1 , S. L. Huskinson 1 , B. W. Gunter 2 , K. Freeman 1 , J. K. Rowlett 1 , 1 University of
Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, MS, 2 Vanderbilt University, Pegram, TN
20 Emerging role of microRNAs in regulation of nicotine dependence: A Caenorhabditis elegans
model
X. Pan, J. R. Polli, Biology, East Carolina University, Greenville, NC
21 The role of the α7 and α4β2 nicotinic receptors in nicotine sensitization and neural plasticity
of adolescent rats neonatally treated with quinpirole: Effects on mTOR and nicotinic receptor
density
D. J. Peterson 1,2 , J. Wherry 2 , E. D. Cummins 3 , D. Hoover 2 , R. W. Brown 2 , 1 Psychology, East
Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, 2 Biomedical Sciences, East Tennessee State
University, Johnson City Tennessee, TN, 3 Psychology, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
22 Silencing giant cholinergic interneurons in the nucleus accumbens with DREADDs reduces
nicotine self-administration in rats
E. A. Williams, C. A. Bradley, M. I. Palmatier, Psychology, East Tennessee State University,
Johnson City, TN
23 Role of accumbens nicotinic acetylcholine receptors in cue-induced nicotine seeking and
synaptic plasticity
A. del Franco 1,2 , G. Powell 1,2 , B. Pagni 1 , J. Goenaga 1 , M. Scofield 3 , C. Gipson-Reichardt 1 ,
1
Psychology, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2 School of Life Sciences, Arizona
State University, Tempe, AZ, 3 Neurosciences, Medical University of South Carolina,
Charleston, SC
24 Vulnerability to glutamate excitotoxicity is sexually dimorphic in rats exposed to chronic social
defeat stress: Relevance to astrocytic glutamate-glutamine cycle
V. Rappeneau 1 , A. BLAKER 2 , J. PETRO 1 , B. Yamamoto 2 , A. Shimamoto 1 , 1 Neuroscience
and Pharmacology, Meharry Medical College, Nashville, TN, 2 Department of Pharmacology
and Toxicology, Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN
25 Expression of the cannabinoid CB1 receptor in Chinese hamster ovary cells: A specific cellular
model to investigate the acute and chronic effects of synthetic cannabinoids
M. Funada, K. Tomiyama, Drug Dependence Research, NIMH, NCNP, Kodaira, Japan
26 In vivo and in vitro cannabinoid effects of three synthetic compounds
M. J. Forster, M. B. Gatch, Center for Neuroscience Discovery, UNT Health Science Center,
Fort Worth, TX
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