Elisabet Jerlhag

Elisabet Jerlhag publication distribution in Neuroscience in 2026

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Best Publications

• Ghrelin administration into tegmental areas stimulates locomotor activity and increases extracellular concentration of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens.

  Elisabet Jerlhag;Emil Egecioglu;Suzanne L. Dickson;Annika Douhan

  562
  Citations

• Ghrelin stimulates locomotor activity and accumbal dopamine-overflow via central cholinergic systems in mice: implications for its involvement in brain reward.

  Elisabet Jerlhag;Emil Egecioglu;Suzanne L. Dickson;Malin Andersson

  486
  Citations

• Requirement of central ghrelin signaling for alcohol reward

  Elisabet Jerlhag;Emil Egecioglu;Sara Landgren;Nicolas Salomé

  467
  Citations

• Ghrelin Increases Intake of Rewarding Food in Rodents

  Emil Egecioglu;Elisabet Jerlhag;Nicolas Salomé;Karolina P. Skibicka

  436
  Citations

• The role of the central ghrelin system in reward from food and chemical drugs

  Suzanne L. Dickson;Emil Egecioglu;Sara Landgren;Karolina P. Skibicka

  303
  Citations

• Ghrelin receptor antagonism attenuates cocaine- and amphetamine-induced locomotor stimulation, accumbal dopamine release, and conditioned place preference.

  Elisabeth Jerlhag;Emil Egecioglu;Suzanne L. Dickson;Jörgen A. Engel

  278
  Citations

• Systemic administration of ghrelin induces conditioned place preference and stimulates accumbal dopamine.

  Elisabet Jerlhag

  248
  Citations

• Hedonic and incentive signals for body weight control.

  Emil Egecioglu;Karolina P. Skibicka;Caroline Hansson;Mayte Alvarez-Crespo

  235
  Citations

• The glucagon-like peptide 1 analogue Exendin-4 attenuates alcohol mediated behaviors in rodents.

  Emil Egecioglu;Pia Steensland;Ida Fredriksson;Kristin Feltmann

  216
  Citations

• The glucagon-like peptide 1 analogue, exendin-4, attenuates the rewarding properties of psychostimulant drugs in mice.

  Emil Egecioglu;Jörgen A. Engel;Elisabet Jerlhag

  186
  Citations

• Ghrelin receptor antagonism attenuates nicotine-induced locomotor stimulation, accumbal dopamine release and conditioned place preference in mice

  Elisabet Jerlhag;Jörgen A. Engel

  169
  Citations

• The glucagon-like peptide 1 analogue Exendin-4 attenuates the nicotine-induced locomotor stimulation, accumbal dopamine release, conditioned place preference as well as the expression of locomotor sensitization in mice.

  Emil Egecioglu;Jörgen A. Engel;Elisabet Jerlhag

  163
  Citations

• Role of Appetite-Regulating Peptides in the Pathophysiology of Addiction: Implications for Pharmacotherapy

  Jörgen A. Engel;Elisabet Jerlhag

  151
  Citations

• The glucagon-like peptide-1 receptor as a potential treatment target in alcohol use disorder: evidence from human genetic association studies and a mouse model of alcohol dependence.

  P Suchankova;P Suchankova;J Yan;J Yan;M L Schwandt;B L Stangl

  149
  Citations

• Ghrelin receptor (GHS-R1A) antagonism suppresses both operant alcohol self-administration and high alcohol consumption in rats

  Sara Landgren;Jeffrey A. Simms;Petri Hyytiä;Jörgen A. Engel

  148
  Citations

• Concomitant release of ventral tegmental acetylcholine and accumbal dopamine by ghrelin in rats.

  Elisabet Jerlhag;Anna Carin Janson;Susanna Waters;Jörgen A. Engel

  142
  Citations

• The glucagon-like peptide 1 receptor agonist liraglutide attenuates the reinforcing properties of alcohol in rodents.

  Daniel Vallöf;Paola Maccioni;Giancarlo Colombo;Minja Mandrapa

  138
  Citations

• Effects of subunit selective nACh receptors on operant ethanol self-administration and relapse-like ethanol-drinking behavior

  Alexander Kuzmin;Elisabet Jerlhag;Sture Liljequist;Jörgen Engel

  131
  Citations

• The alcohol-induced locomotor stimulation and accumbal dopamine release is suppressed in ghrelin knockout mice.

  Elisabeth Jerlhag;Sara Landgren;Emil Egecioglu;Suzanne L. Dickson

  129
  Citations

• Glutamatergic regulation of ghrelin-induced activation of the mesolimbic dopamine system.

  Elisabeth Jerlhag;Emil Egecioglu;Suzanne L. Dickson;Jörgen A. Engel

  128
  Citations