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ReviewFrontiers in cellular neuroscience2016

Presynaptic G Protein-Coupled Receptors: Gatekeepers of Addiction?

Kari A Johnson, David M Lovinger

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In one paragraph

Review in Frontiers in cellular neuroscience, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 37 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
37citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
4.7field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

37 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 66 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Highway to hell or magic smoke? The dose-dependence of ΔLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2018
    Pooled it
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  6. Pre- and Post-synaptic Mechanisms of Neuronal Inhibition Assessed Through Biochemically Detailed Modeling of GABAThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2025
    Article
  7. mGlu2 Receptors in the Basal Ganglia: A New Frontier in Addiction Therapy.Frontiers in bioscience (Landmark edition) · 2025
    Review
  8. Synaptic Effects Induced by Alcohol.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025
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  14. SNAP25 differentially contributes to GFrontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2023
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  17. Receptor-Dependent and Independent Regulation of Voltage-Gated CaInternational journal of molecular sciences · 2021
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  20. Operant self-stimulation of thalamic terminals in the dorsomedial striatum is constrained by metabotropic glutamate receptor 2.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Kari A JohnsonSection on Synaptic Pharmacology, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA.
David M LovingerSection on Synaptic Pharmacology, Laboratory for Integrative Neuroscience, National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, National Institutes of Health Bethesda, MD, USA.
National Institutes of Health · US

Funding

Synaptic Transmission: Modulation, Plasticity And Effects Of Drugs Of AbuseZIAAA000407 · NIAAA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM · PI LOVINGER, DAVID M · 2009 to 2025
$29.6M
Corticostriatal mechanisms of action learning and habit formationZIAAA000416 · NIAAA · NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON ALCOHOL ABUSE AND ALCOHOLISM · PI LOVINGER, DAVID M · 2009 to 2025
$25.2M
Intramural NIH HHS ZIA AA000416
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Drug abuse and addiction cause widespread social and public health problems, and the neurobiology underlying drug actions and drug use and abuse is an area of intensive research. Drugs of abuse alter synaptic transmission, and these actions contribute to acute intoxication as well as the chronic effects of abused substances. Transmission at most mammalian synapses involves neurotransmitter activation of two receptor subtypes, ligand-gated ion channels that mediate fast synaptic responses and G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) that have slower neuromodulatory actions. The GPCRs represent a large proportion of neurotransmitter receptors involved in almost all facets of nervous system function. In addition, these receptors are targets for many pharmacotherapeutic agents. Drugs of abuse directly or indirectly affect neuromodulation mediated by GPCRs, with important consequences for intoxication, drug taking and responses to prolonged drug exposure, withdrawal and addiction. Among the GPCRs are several subtypes involved in presynaptic inhibition, most of which are coupled to the G

Indexed as

addictionallosteric modulatorCB1 receptordopamine receptorGPCRmetabotropic glutamate receptorpresynapticself-administration

Identifiers

PMID27891077
PMCPMC5104741
OpenAlexW2556508772

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