SELECTED PUBLICATIONS (REFEREED JOURNALS)

Sun X, Zhao Y, Wolf ME (2005) Dopamine receptor stimulation modulates AMPA receptor synaptic insertion in prefrontal cortex neurons. J Neurosci 25, 7342-7351.

Boudreau AC, Wolf ME (2005) Behavioral sensitization to cocaine is associated with increased AMPA receptor surface expression in the nucleus accumbens. J Neurosci 25, 9144-9151.

Gao C, Sun X, Wolf ME (2006) Activation of D1 dopamine receptors increases surface expression of AMPA receptors and facilitates their synaptic incorporation in cultured hippocampal neurons.  J Neurochem 98, 1664-1677.

Boudreau AC, Reimers JM, Milovanovic M, Wolf ME (2007) Cell surface AMPA receptors in the rat nucleus accumbens increase during cocaine withdrawal but internalize upon cocaine challenge in association with altered activation of mitogen-activated protein kinases. J Neurosci 27, 10621-10635.

Gao C, Wolf ME (2007) Dopamine alters AMPA receptor synaptic expression and subunit composition in dopamine neurons of the ventral tegmental area cultured with prefrontal cortex neurons. J Neurosci 27, 14725-14285.

Sun X, Milovanovic M, Zhao Y, Wolf ME (2008) Acute and chronic dopamine receptor stimulation modulates AMPA receptor trafficking in nucleus accumbens neurons co-cultured with prefrontal cortex neurons. J Neurosci 28, 4216-4230.

Conrad KL, Tseng KY, Uejima JL, Reimers JM, Heng LJ, Shaham Y, Marinelli M, Wolf ME (2008)  Formation of accumbens GluR2-lacking AMPA receptors mediates incubation of cocaine craving. Nature 454, 118-121.

Gao C, Wolf ME (2008) Dopamine receptors regulate NMDA receptor surface expression in prefrontal cortex neurons. J Neurochem 106, 2489-2501.

Nelson CL, Milovanovic M, Wetter JB, Ford KA, Wolf ME (2009) Behavioral sensitization to amphetamine is not accompanied by changes in glutamate receptor surface expression in the rat nucleus accumbens. J Neurochem, 109, 35-51.

Boudreau AC, Ferrario CR, Glucksman M, Wolf ME (2009)  Signaling pathway adaptations and novel protein kinase A substrates related to behavioral sensitization to cocaine.  J Neurochem 110, 363-377.

Sun X, Wolf ME (2009) Nucleus accumbens neurons exhibit synaptic scaling that is occluded by repeated dopamine pre-exposure.  Eur J Neurosci 30, 539-550.

SELECTED REVIEW ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS

Everitt BJ, Wolf ME (2002) Psychomotor stimulant addiction: a neural systems perspective. J Neurosci 22, 3312-3320.

Wolf ME (2002) Addiction: Making the connection between behavioral changes and neuronal plasticity in specific circuits. Molecular Interventions 2, 146-157.

Wolf ME, Sun X, Mangiavacchi S, Chao SZ (2004) Psychomotor stimulants and neuronal plasticity. Neuropharmacology 47S1, 61-79.

Wolf ME (2005) Addiction.  In: Basic Neurochemistry, 7th edition, GJ Siegel, RW Albers, ST Brady, DL Price, eds. Elsevier Academic Press, pp. 911-926.