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Masanari Itokawa
Researcher at National Institutes of Health
Publications - 2
Citations - 543
Masanari Itokawa is an academic researcher from National Institutes of Health. The author has contributed to research in topics: Dopamine receptor & Dopamine receptor D1. The author has an hindex of 2, co-authored 2 publications receiving 522 citations.
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Molecular mechanisms of cocaine reward: Combined dopamine and serotonin transporter knockouts eliminate cocaine place preference
Ichiro Sora,F. Scott Hall,Anne M. Andrews,Masanari Itokawa,Xiao Fei Li,Hong Bing Wei,Christine Wichems,Klaus-Peter Lesch,Dennis L. Murphy,George R. Uhl +9 more
TL;DR: The serotonin dependence of cocaine reward in DAT knockout mice is confirmed by the elimination of cocaine place preference in Dat/SERT double knockout mice, and insights into the brain molecular targets necessary for cocaine Reward in knockout mice that develop in their absence are provided.
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Dopamine transporter proline mutations influence dopamine uptake, cocaine analog recognition, and expression
TL;DR: This work reports production of mutants substituting alanine and/or glycine residues for 16 prolines located in or near putative DAT TM domains that identify DAT regions likely for dopamine translocation and for recognition of dopamine and cocaine.