Mental and Addictive Disorders
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JEFFERY D. STEKETEE, Ph.D.
- Professor
- Department of Pharmacology
- The University of Tennessee College of Medicine
Address
- The University of Tennessee Health Science Center
- 424 Crowe Research Building
- 874 Union Avenue
- Memphis, TN 38163
- Tel: (901) 448-4585;
Education
- Ph.D. Institution: University of Texas Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Houston, TX
- Postdoctoral: Washington State University, Department of Neuropharmacology, Pullman, WA
Research Interests
Our lab studies the neurocircuitry of drug addiction. Using behavioral, pharmacological and neurochemical techniques, we study the involvement of specific brain regions in the actions of stimulants (cocaine and amphetamine), inhalants (toluene), and ethanol.
Links
- Pharmacology - Jeffery Steketee
Recent Publications
- Xie X, Steketee JD.
Repeated exposure to cocaine alters the modulation of mesocorticolimbic
glutamate transmission by medial prefrontal cortex Group II metabotropic
glutamate receptors.
J Neurochem. 2008 Aug 30; [Epub ahead of print]
PMID: 18673447
- Steketee JD.
Cortical mechanisms of cocaine sensitization.
Crit Rev Neurobiol. 2005;17(2):69-86. Review.
PMID: 16808728
- Wang F, Chen H, Steketee JD, Sharp BM.
Upregulation of ionotropic glutamate receptor subunits within specific
mesocorticolimbic regions during chronic nicotine self-administration.
Neuropsychopharmacology. 2007 Jan;32(1):103-9. Epub 2006 Feb 1.
PMID: 16452988
- Jayaram P, Steketee JD.
Cocaine-induced increases in medial prefrontal cortical GABA transmission
involves glutamatergic receptors.
Eur J Pharmacol. 2006 Feb 15;531(1-3):74-9. Epub 2006 Jan 10.
PMID: 16409999
- Jayaram P, Steketee JD.
Effects of cocaine-induced behavioural sensitization on GABA transmission
within rat medial prefrontal cortex.
Eur J Neurosci. 2005 Apr;21(7):2035-9.
PMID: 15869498
- Steketee JD, Beyer CE.
Injections of baclofen into the ventral medial prefrontal cortex block the
initiation, but not the expression, of cocaine sensitization in rats.
Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2005 Jul;180(2):352-8. Epub 2005 Feb 5.
PMID: 15696327
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