All drugs of abuse, like neural rewarding behaviors such as sex and eating, increase extra-cellular dopamine (DA) levels in the nucleus accumbens (NA), which is a part of the common...

Cocaine- and amphetamine-regulated transcript (CART) peptide is a widely distributed neurotransmitter expressed in the central nervous systems. Previously, several reports demonstrated that nucleus accumbal-injected CART peptide positively modulated behavioral sensitization...