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Marina E. Wolf is a researcher affiliated with Oregon Health & Science University in the United States. Their work primarily focuses on the field of Neuroscience, with a significant emphasis on Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Molecular Biology. Additional areas of study include Oncology and Physiology.

The scientist's research addresses topics related to Neuroscience and Neuropharmacology Research, Neurotransmitter Receptor Influence on Behavior, and Receptor Mechanisms and Signaling. They also investigate Memory and Neural Mechanisms, Pain Mechanisms and Treatments, Pharmacological Effects and Toxicity Studies, as well as Neural Dynamics and Brain Function.

Recent publications by Marina E. Wolf include the following papers:

  • Improved green and red GRAB sensors for monitoring dopaminergic activity in vivo, 2023, published in Nature Methods
  • GluN3-Containing NMDA Receptors in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens Core Contribute to Incubation of Cocaine Craving, 2021, published in Journal of Neuroscience
  • Positive Allosteric Modulation of mGlu1 Reverses Cocaine-Induced Behavioral and Synaptic Plasticity Through the Integrated Stress Response and Oligophrenin-1, 2022, published in Biological Psychiatry
  • Persistent Neuroadaptations in the Nucleus Accumbens Core Accompany Incubation of Methamphetamine Craving in Male and Female Rats, 2023, published in eNeuro
  • mGlu5 function in the nucleus accumbens core during the incubation of methamphetamine craving, 2021, published in Neuropharmacology

Collaborations with other researchers are evident through frequent co-authorship with Amanda M. Wunsch, Jonathan R. Funke, Mike Milovanovic, Alex B. Kawa, and Eun-Kyung Hwang. These collaborative relationships involve multiple joint publications.

The scientist's work has been published across a variety of venues. The most frequent publication venues include bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature, Neuropsychopharmacology, eNeuro, and JNCI Journal of the National Cancer Institute.

Best Publications

  • The role of excitatory amino acids in behavioral sensitization to psychomotor stimulants

    Marina E Wolf

  • FORMATION OF ACCUMBENS GluR2-LACKING AMPA RECEPTORS MEDIATES INCUBATION OF COCAINE CRAVING

    Marina E. Wolf;Michela Marinelli;Kuei Y. Tseng;Kelly L. Conrad

  • Psychomotor Stimulant Addiction: A Neural Systems Perspective

    Barry J. Everitt;Marina E. Wolf

  • Behavioral Sensitization to Cocaine Is Associated with Increased AMPA Receptor Surface Expression in the Nucleus Accumbens

    Amy C. Boudreau;Marina E. Wolf

  • Cell Surface AMPA Receptors in the Rat Nucleus Accumbens Increase during Cocaine Withdrawal But Internalize after Cocaine Challenge in Association with Altered Activation of Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases

    Amy C. Boudreau;Jeremy M. Reimers;Michael Milovanovic;Marina E. Wolf

  • Synaptic mechanisms underlying persistent cocaine craving

    Marina E. Wolf

  • REPEATED ADMINISTRATION OF COCAINE OR AMPHETAMINE ALTERS NEURONAL RESPONSES TO GLUTAMATE IN THE MESOACCUMBENS DOPAMINE SYSTEM

    F. J. White;Xiu-Ti Hu;Xu-Feng Zhang;M. E. Wolf

  • Bidirectional Modulation of Incubation of Cocaine Craving by Silent Synapse-Based Remodeling of Prefrontal Cortex to Accumbens Projections

    Yao Ying Ma;Brian R. Lee;Xiusong Wang;Changyong Guo

  • Psychomotor stimulants and neuronal plasticity.

    Marina E. Wolf;Xiu Sun;Simona Mangiavacchi;Steven Z. Chao

  • Effects of lesions of prefrontal cortex, amygdala, or fornix on behavioral sensitization to amphetamine: Comparison with N-methyl-d-aspartate antagonists

    M.E. Wolf;S.L. Dahlin;X.-T. Hu;C.-J. Xue

  • Dopamine Receptor Stimulation Modulates AMPA Receptor Synaptic Insertion in Prefrontal Cortex Neurons

    Xiu Sun;Yun Zhao;Marina E. Wolf

  • Maturation of silent synapses in amygdala-accumbens projection contributes to incubation of cocaine craving

    Brian R. Lee;Yao Ying Ma;Yanhua H. Huang;Xiusong Wang

  • Differential development of autoreceptor subsensitivity and enhanced dopamine release during amphetamine sensitization.

    M E Wolf;F J White;R Nassar;R J Brooderson

  • Coadministration of MK-801 with amphetamine, cocaine or morphine prevents rather than transiently masks the development of behavioral sensitization

    Marina E. Wolf;Michael Jeziorski

  • Repeated administration of MK-801 produces sensitization to its own locomotor stimulant effects but blocks sensitization to amphetamine.

    Marina E. Wolf;Mohamad R. Khansa

  • AMPA receptor plasticity in the nucleus accumbens after repeated exposure to cocaine

    Marina E. Wolf;Carrie R. Ferrario

  • The Bermuda Triangle of cocaine-induced neuroadaptations

    Marina E. Wolf

  • Increased Responsiveness of Ventral Tegmental Area Dopamine Neurons to Glutamate after Repeated Administration of Cocaine or Amphetamine Is Transient and Selectively Involves AMPA Receptors

    Xu Feng Zhang;Xiu Ti Hu;Francis J. White;Marina E. Wolf

  • Alterations in Dopamine Release But Not Dopamine Autoreceptor Function in Dopamine D3 Receptor Mutant Mice

    Timothy E. Koeltzow;Ming Xu;Donald C. Cooper;Xiu Ti Hu

  • MK-801 prevents alterations in the mesoaccumbens dopamine system associated with behavioral sensitization to amphetamine

    Marina E. Wolf;Francis J. White;Xiu Ti Hu

Frequent Co-Authors

Kuei Y. Tseng
Kuei Y. Tseng University of Illinois at Chicago
Michela \Micky\" Marinelli"
Michela \Micky\" Marinelli" The University of Texas at Austin
Xiu-Ti Hu
Xiu-Ti Hu Rush University Medical Center
Yan Dong
Yan Dong University of Pittsburgh
Bita Moghaddam
Bita Moghaddam Oregon Health & Science University
Barry J. Everitt
Barry J. Everitt University of Cambridge
Lisa M. Monteggia
Lisa M. Monteggia Vanderbilt University
Susan R. Sesack
Susan R. Sesack University of Pittsburgh
Michael J. Bannon
Michael J. Bannon Wayne State University
Aldo Badiani
Aldo Badiani Sapienza University of Rome

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