Skip to main content

and
  1. No Access

    Article

    Contingent and non-contingent recreational-like exposure to ethanol alters BDNF expression and signaling in the cortico-accumbal network differently

    Although brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is part of a homeostatic pathway involved in the development of alcohol dependence, it is not clear whether this is also true after recreational ethanol consum...

    Alessandro Orrù, Lucia Caffino, Federico Moro, Chiara Cassina in Psychopharmacology (2016)

  2. No Access

    Article

    Operant, oral alcoholic beer self-administration by C57BL/6J mice: effect of BHF177, a positive allosteric modulator of GABAB receptors

    With its high palatability, near-beer has been successfully used in rats as a vehicle to induce ethanol oral self-administration.

    Alessandro Orrù, Daniele Fujani, Chiara Cassina, Mirko Conti in Psychopharmacology (2012)

  3. Article

    Open Access

    Knock-down of methyl CpG-binding protein 2 (MeCP2) causes alterations in cell proliferation and nuclear lamins expression in mammalian cells

    MeCP2 (CpG-binding protein 2) is a nuclear multifunctional protein involved in several cellular processes, like large-scale chromatin reorganization and architecture, and transcriptional regulation. In recent ...

    Federica Babbio, Ilaria Castiglioni, Chiara Cassina in BMC Cell Biology (2012)