behavior/neurological
• show no increased locomotor activity as seen in wildtype following cocaine treatment, despite similar levels of cocaine-induced dopamine levels in the nucleus accumbens as in wildtype
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• do not self-administer cocaine indicating that reinforcing properties of cocaine are absent in homozygous nulls
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nervous system
• amplitude of corticostriatal long term potentiation is significantly reduced
• corticostriatal long term potentiation is completely blocked when LY 367385, a Grm1 antoagonist, is added
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