Sunil U Nayak
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Recent Articles
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Simmons S, Oliver C, McCloskey N, Reitz A, Nayak S, Watson M, et al.
Drug Alcohol Depend
. 2021 Dec;
230:109204.
PMID: 34871976
Chemokine CXCR4 and CCR5 receptors are best known as HIV co-entry receptors, but evidence that CXCR4 or CCR5 blockade reduces rewarding and locomotor-stimulant effects of psychostimulants in rats suggests a...
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Cameron J, Brasch K, Strong D, Paul B, Cavanaugh E, Thakur S, et al.
Addict Behav
. 2020 Dec;
114:106744.
PMID: 33291057
School-based drug prevention programs represent a widely endorsed public health goal, with an important aspect of knowledge-based curricula being education about the physiological effects of drugs. Nicotine is one of...
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Foss J, Nayak S, Tallarida C, Farkas D, Ward S, Rawls S
Drug Alcohol Depend
. 2020 Mar;
209:107946.
PMID: 32145665
Background And Purpose: Kratom is a coffee-like plant containing compounds that cause opioid and stimulant effects. The most prevalent bioactive alkaloid of kratom is mitragynine (MG). Opioid effects of MG...
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Nayak S, Cicalese S, Tallarida C, Oliver C, Rawls S
Brain Behav Immun
. 2019 Sep;
83:288-292.
PMID: 31557508
C-C chemokine receptor type 5, also known as CCR5 or CD195, is best known as a viral co-receptor that facilitates entry of HIV into cells. Evidence that CCR5 knockout mice...
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Cho M, Nayak S, Jennings T, Tallarida C, Rawls S
Physiol Behav
. 2019 Apr;
206:181-184.
PMID: 30951749
Avoidant behavior is a characteristic feature post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and is modeled in mammals with predator odor. Light avoidance is a hallmark behavioral reaction in planarians. We hypothesized that...
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Dziedowiec E, Nayak S, Gruver K, Jennings T, Tallarida C, Rawls S
Neuroscience
. 2018 Jul;
386:214-222.
PMID: 29958944
Unlike the behavioral effects planarians display when exposed to cocaine, amphetamines, cathinones, ethanol and sucrose, effects of opioid receptor agonists, especially mu opioid receptor agonists, are poorly defined in these...
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Hicks C, Huang P, Ramos L, Nayak S, Caro Y, Reitz A, et al.
ACS Chem Neurosci
. 2018 Mar;
9(6):1327-1337.
PMID: 29597343
Psychostimulant reinforcement is mediated by stimulation of both dopamine (DA) D1-like and D2-like receptors, suggesting that pharmacotherapy agents with a dual DA receptor mechanism may be useful for managing psychostimulant...
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Oliver C, Simmons S, Nayak S, Smith G, Reitz A, Rawls S
Drug Alcohol Depend
. 2018 Mar;
186:75-79.
PMID: 29550625
Background And Purpose: Little is known about how chemokine systems influence the behavioral effects of designer cathinones and psychostimulants. The chemokine CXCL12 and its principal receptor target, CXCR4, are of...
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Hicks C, Gregg R, Nayak S, Cannella L, Schena G, Tallarida C, et al.
Psychopharmacology (Berl)
. 2017 Mar;
234(11):1671-1681.
PMID: 28251297
Rationale: Metabotropic glutamate 2 and 3 (mGluR2/3) receptors are implicated in drug addiction as they limit excessive glutamate release during relapse. N-acetylaspartylglutamate (NAAG) is an endogenous mGluR2/3 agonist that is...
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Gregg R, Hicks C, Nayak S, Tallarida C, Nucero P, Smith G, et al.
Neuropharmacology
. 2016 Apr;
108:111-9.
PMID: 27085607
Synthetic cathinones produce dysregulation of monoamine systems, but their effects on the glutamate system and the influence of glutamate on behavioral effects related to cathinone abuse are unknown. A principal...