Explore the effect of antidepressant drugs on dopamine D1 and D2 receptor expression and dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens.

Discusses dopamine and the major role it plays in addiction. Learn how neurons can become sensitized or desensitized to this neurotransmitter.

University of Texas Addiction Science Research Center site explains the effect of stimulant drugs on dopamine receptors.

Overview of a study of the functions of each dopamine receptor, using mice lacking each of the D1R, D2R, D3R, and D4R dopamine receptors.

New release from the University of North Carolina poses that dopamine may play a less influential role in happiness than previously believed.

Peruse an abstract of an article detailing the role dopamine and its agonists play in cardiovascular, renal, hormonal, and CNS regulation.

Abstract from "International Clinical Psychopharmacology" on the mesolimbic dopamine system as a target for rapid antidepressant action.

Check out a photograph of a recrystallized dopamine molecular under the microscope. From the Pharmaceutical Collection.

Access an article abstract from the "European Journal of Pharmacology" detailing the dopamine transporter's structure and function.