Dorit Ron, PhD
Professor
Neurology
School of Medicine

She has served as an Associate Editor for the Journal of Neuroscience and is currently a reviewing editor for Addiction Biology, the Alcohol Journal, as well as a field editor for Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research. Dr. Ron’s research focuses on the molecular neurobiology of alcohol use disorders for which her laboratory uses molecular, and rodent behavior approaches. Dr. Ron’s areas of expertise are: molecular neuroscience, signal transduction, neurobiology of addiction and psychiatric disorders. Over the years the Ron lab has made numerous major contributions to the field of addiction and identified novel targets that could potentially be developed as therapeutics to treat alcohol addiction. Several of the studies resulted in UCSF press releases, which received the attention of both the scientific community and the general public.

• Paradoxical mTORC1-Dependent microRNA-mediated Translation Repression in the Nucleus Accumbens of Mice Consuming Alcohol Attenuates Glycolysis.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Ehinger Y, Laguesse S, Phamluong K, Salvi A, Hoisington ZW, Soneja D, Sei YJ, Nakamura K, Ron D
• Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 limits dopamine D1 receptor signaling in striatum and biases against heavy persistent alcohol drinking.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2023 da Silva D, Matsui A, Murray EM, Mamais A, Authement ME, Shin JH, Shaw M, Ron D, Cookson MR, Alvarez VA
• The small G-protein Rac1 in the dorsomedial striatum promotes alcohol-dependent structural plasticity and goal-directed learning in mice.
  bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology 2023 Hoisington ZW, Salvi A, Laguesse S, Ehinger Y, Shukla C, Phamluong K, Ron D
• Alcohol Inhibits Glycolysis in the Nucleus Accumbens of Mice Through mTORC1-Dependent Repression of Translation.
  Alcohol 2023 D. Ron, Y. Ehinger, A. Salvi, K. Phamluong, Y. Sei, D. Sonja, E. Whiteley, S. Laguesse, K. Nakamura
• The Small G-Protein Rac1 Promotes Neuroadaptations that Underlie Alcohol Use Disorder.
  Alcohol 2023 Zachary W. Hoisington, Alexandra Salvi, Khanhky Phamluong, Yann Ehinger, Dorit Ron
• Identification of Novel BDNF-Specific Corticostriatal Circuitries.
  eNeuro 2023 Ehinger Y, Soneja D, Phamluong K, Salvi A, Ron D
• The BDNF Val68Met polymorphism causes a sex specific alcohol preference over social interaction and also acute tolerance to the anxiolytic effects of alcohol, a phenotype driven by malfunction of BDNF in the ventral hippocampus of male mice.
  Psychopharmacology 2023 Moffat JJ, Sakhai SA, Hoisington ZW, Ehinger Y, Ron D
• Correction: mTORC1 in the orbitofrontal cortex promotes habitual alcohol seeking.
  eLife 2022 Morisot N, Phamluong K, Ehinger Y, Berger AL, Moffat JJ, Ron D
• Alcohol and the brain: from genes to circuits.
  Trends in neurosciences 2021 Egervari G, Siciliano CA, Whiteley EL, Ron D
• Brain-specific inhibition of mTORC1 eliminates side effects resulting from mTORC1 blockade in the periphery and reduces alcohol intake in mice.
  Nature communications 2021 Ehinger Y, Zhang Z, Phamluong K, Soneja D, Shokat KM, Ron D
• A non-hallucinogenic psychedelic analogue with therapeutic potential.
  Nature 2020 Cameron LP, Tombari RJ, Lu J, Pell AJ, Hurley ZQ, Ehinger Y, Vargas MV, McCarroll MN, Taylor JC, Myers-Turnbull D, Liu T, Yaghoobi B, Laskowski LJ, Anderson EI, Zhang G, Viswanathan J, Brown BM, Tjia …
• Growth Factors and Alcohol Use Disorder.
  Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in medicine 2020 Liran M, Rahamim N, Ron D, Barak S
• Investigating the link between serum concentrations of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and behavioral measures in anxious alcohol-dependent individuals.
  Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) 2020 Portelli J, Farokhnia M, Deschaine SL, Battista JT, Lee MR, Li X, Ron D, Leggio L
• Astrocytes and alcohol: cortical astrocytes regulate alcohol consumption and intoxication.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2020 Moffat JJ, Ron D
• cAMP-Fyn signaling in the dorsomedial striatum direct pathway drives excessive alcohol use.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2020 Ehinger Y, Morisot N, Phamluong K, Sakhai SA, Soneja D, Adrover MF, Alvarez VA, Ron D
• Differential correlation of serum BDNF and microRNA content in rats with rapid or late onset of heavy alcohol use.
  Addiction biology 2020 Ehinger Y, Phamluong K, Darevesky D, Welman M, Moffat JJ, Sakhai SA, Whiteley EL, Berger AL, Laguesse S, Farokhnia M, Leggio L, Lordkipanidzé M, Ron D
• mTORC1 in the orbitofrontal cortex promotes habitual alcohol seeking.
  eLife 2019 Morisot N, Phamluong K, Ehinger Y, Berger AL, Moffat JJ, Ron D
• Protein Translation and Psychiatric Disorders.
  The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry 2019 Laguesse S, Ron D
• The Fyn kinase inhibitor, AZD0530, suppresses mouse alcohol self-administration and seeking.
  Addiction biology 2018 Morisot N, Berger AL, Phamluong K, Cross A, Ron D
• D1 receptor hypersensitivity in mice with low striatal D2 receptors facilitates select cocaine behaviors.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2018 Dobbs LK, Kaplan AR, Bock R, Phamluong K, Shin JH, Bocarsly ME, Eberhart L, Ron D, Alvarez VA
• Increasing Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor (BDNF) in medial prefrontal cortex selectively reduces excessive drinking in ethanol dependent mice.
  Neuropharmacology 2018 Haun HL, Griffin WC, Lopez MF, Solomon MG, Mulholland PJ, Woodward JJ, McGinty JF, Ron D, Becker HC
• Mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 and its downstream effector collapsin response mediator protein-2 drive reinstatement of alcohol reward seeking.
  Addiction biology 2018 Ben Hamida S, Laguesse S, Morisot N, Park JH, Phuamluong K, Berger AL, Park KD, Ron D
• Special issue on new technologies for alcohol research and treatment.
  Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) 2018 Ron D, Weiner J
• Mice engineered to mimic a common Val66Met polymorphism in the BDNF gene show greater sensitivity to reversal in environmental contingencies.
  Developmental cognitive neuroscience 2018 Vandenberg A, Lin WC, Tai LH, Ron D, Wilbrecht L
• GDNF and alcohol use disorder.
  Addiction biology 2018 Barak S, Ahmadiantehrani S, Logrip ML, Ron D
• Targeting the intracellular signaling "STOP" and "GO" pathways for the treatment of alcohol use disorders.
  Psychopharmacology 2018 Ron D, Berger A
• mTORC2 in the dorsomedial striatum of mice contributes to alcohol-dependent F-Actin polymerization, structural modifications, and consumption.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2018 Laguesse S, Morisot N, Phamluong K, Sakhai SA, Ron D
• mTORC1-dependent translation of collapsin response mediator protein-2 drives neuroadaptations underlying excessive alcohol-drinking behaviors.
  Molecular psychiatry 2017 Liu F, Laguesse S, Legastelois R, Morisot N, Ben Hamida S, Ron D
• Fyn Signaling Is Compartmentalized to Dopamine D1 Receptor Expressing Neurons in the Dorsal Medial Striatum.
  Frontiers in molecular neuroscience 2017 Phamluong K, Darcq E, Wu S, Sakhai SA, Ron D
• Alcohol operant self-administration: Investigating how alcohol-seeking behaviors predict drinking in mice using two operant approaches.
  Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) 2017 Blegen MB, da Silva E Silva D, Bock R, Morisot N, Ron D, Alvarez VA
• A new generation of mTORC1 inhibitor attenuates alcohol intake and reward in mice.
  Addiction biology 2017 Morisot N, Novotny CJ, Shokat KM, Ron D
• Periadolescent Maturation of GABAergic Hyperpolarization at the Axon Initial Segment.
  Cell reports 2017 Rinetti-Vargas G, Phamluong K, Ron D, Bender KJ
• Altered sensitivity to the anxiolytic and rewarding properties of alcohol in mice which carry the BDNF valine 68 to methionine polymorphism.
  Alcohol 2017 Samuel A. Sakhai, Nadege Morisot, Dorit Ron
• mTORC1 is a key molecular transducer of alcohol-dependent plasticity, seeking and relapse.
  Alcohol 2017 Dorit Ron
• Limited Excessive Voluntary Alcohol Drinking Leads to Liver Dysfunction in Mice.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2017 Wegner SA, Pollard KA, Kharazia V, Darevsky D, Perez L, Roychowdhury S, Xu A, Ron D, Nagy LE, Hopf FW
• Alcohol-dependent molecular adaptations of the NMDA receptor system.
  Genes, brain, and behavior 2017 Morisot N, Ron D
• Region specific activation of the AKT and mTORC1 pathway in response to excessive alcohol intake in rodents.
  Addiction biology 2016 Laguesse S, Morisot N, Phamluong K, Ron D
• The Neurotrophic Factor Receptor p75 in the Rat Dorsolateral Striatum Drives Excessive Alcohol Drinking.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2016 Darcq E, Morisot N, Phamluong K, Warnault V, Jeanblanc J, Longo FM, Massa SM, Ron D
• Activation of the cAMP Pathway Induces RACK1-Dependent Binding of β-Actin to BDNF Promoter.
  PloS one 2016 Neasta J, Fiorenza A, He DY, Phamluong K, Kiely PA, Ron D
• The First Alcohol Drink Triggers mTORC1-Dependent Synaptic Plasticity in Nucleus Accumbens Dopamine D1 Receptor Neurons.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2016 Beckley JT, Laguesse S, Phamluong K, Morisot N, Wegner SA, Ron D
• Chapter 13 mTOR and Drugs of Abuse.
  Molecules to Medicine with mTOR 2016 Jacob T. Beckley, Dorit Ron
• Alcohol Elicits Functional and Structural Plasticity Selectively in Dopamine D1 Receptor-Expressing Neurons of the Dorsomedial Striatum.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2015 Wang J, Cheng Y, Wang X, Roltsch Hellard E, Ma T, Gil H, Ben Hamida S, Ron D
• Striatal-enriched protein tyrosine phosphatase controls responses to aversive stimuli: implication for ethanol drinking.
  PloS one 2015 Legastelois R, Darcq E, Wegner SA, Lombroso PJ, Ron D
• Corticostriatal BDNF and alcohol addiction.
  Brain research 2015 Logrip ML, Barak S, Warnault V, Ron D
• Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) is an endogenous protector in the mesolimbic system against excessive alcohol consumption and relapse.
  Addiction biology 2014 Barak S, Wang J, Ahmadiantehrani S, Ben Hamida S, Kells AP, Forsayeth J, Bankiewicz KS, Ron D
• mTOR complex 1: a key player in neuroadaptations induced by drugs of abuse.
  Journal of neurochemistry 2014 Neasta J, Barak S, Hamida SB, Ron D
• Animal models of excessive alcohol consumption: recent advances and future challenges.
  Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) 2014 Becker HC, Ron D
• Inhibition of striatal-enriched tyrosine phosphatase 61 in the dorsomedial striatum is sufficient to increased ethanol consumption.
  Journal of neurochemistry 2014 Darcq E, Hamida SB, Wu S, Phamluong K, Kharazia V, Xu J, Lombroso P, Ron D
• Intermittent ethanol access schedule in rats as a preclinical model of alcohol abuse.
  Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) 2014 Carnicella S, Ron D, Barak S
• Chapter 9 From Signaling Pathways to Behavior The Light and Dark Sides of Alcohol.
  Neurobiology of Alcohol Dependence 2014 Somayeh Ahmadiantehrani, Vincent Warnault, Remi Legastelois, Dorit Ron
• Chromatin remodeling: a new landscape to treat harmful alcohol-use disorders.
  Future medicinal chemistry 2013 Warnault V, Ron D
• Protein tyrosine phosphatase α in the dorsomedial striatum promotes excessive ethanol-drinking behaviors.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2013 Ben Hamida S, Darcq E, Wang J, Wu S, Phamluong K, Kharazia V, Ron D
• RACK1 to the future--a historical perspective.
  Cell communication and signaling : CCS 2013 Ron D, Adams DR, Baillie GS, Long A, O'Connor R, Kiely PA
• Cortical activation of accumbens hyperpolarization-active NMDARs mediates aversion-resistant alcohol intake.
  Nature neuroscience 2013 Seif T, Chang SJ, Simms JA, Gibb SL, Dadgar J, Chen BT, Harvey BK, Ron D, Messing RO, Bonci A, Hopf FW
• Nature Neurosci June 3, 2013 [epub ahead of print]
  Disruption of alcohol-related memories by mTORC1 inhibition prevents relapse. 2013 Barak S, Liu F, Ben Hamida S, Yowell QV, Neasta J, Kharazia V, Janak PH and Ron D.
• Binge ethanol-drinking potentiates corticotropin releasing factor R1 receptor activity in the ventral tegmental area.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2013 Sparta DR, Hopf FW, Gibb SL, Cho SL, Stuber GD, Messing RO, Ron D, Bonci A
• Dopamine D2 receptor activation leads to an up-regulation of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor via Gβγ-Erk1/2-dependent induction of Zif268.
  Journal of neurochemistry 2013 Ahmadiantehrani S, Ron D
• GDNF is a novel ethanol-responsive gene in the VTA: implications for the development and persistence of excessive drinking.
  Addiction biology 2013 Ahmadiantehrani S, Barak S, Ron D
• Addiction Biology January 9, 2013 [epub ahead of print]
  GDNF is a novel ethanol-responsive gene in the VTA: Implications for the development and persistence of excessive drinking. 2013 Ahmadiantehrani S, Barak S and Ron D.
• Alcohol: Clin Exp Res
  Recent advances in the discovery and preclinical testing of novel compounds for the prevention and/or treatment of alcohol use disorders 2013 Davies DL, Bortolato M, Finn DA, Ramaker MJ, Barak S, Ron D, Liang J, Olsen RW
• J Neurochem
  Dopamine D2 receptor activation leads to an upregulation of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor via Gbetagamma-Erk1/2-dependent induction of Zif268 2013 Ahmadiantehrani S and Ron D
• Transl Psychiatry
  Chromatin remodeling - A novel strategy to control excessive alcohol drinking. 2013 Warnault V, Darcq E, Levine A, Barak S, Ron D.
• BDNF-mediated regulation of ethanol consumption requires the activation of the MAP kinase pathway and protein synthesis.
  The European journal of neuroscience 2012 Jeanblanc J, Logrip ML, Janak PH, Ron D
• Ethanol-mediated facilitation of AMPA receptor function in the dorsomedial striatum: implications for alcohol drinking behavior.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2012 Wang J, Ben Hamida S, Darcq E, Zhu W, Gibb SL, Lanfranco MF, Carnicella S, Ron D
• Recent advances in the discovery and preclinical testing of novel compounds for the prevention and/or treatment of alcohol use disorders.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2012 Davies DL, Bortolato M, Finn DA, Ramaker MJ, Barak S, Ron D, Liang J, Olsen RW
• Addic Biol
  Alpha4 subunit-containing GABA(A) receptors in the accumbens shell contribute to the reinforcing effects of alcohol. 2012 Rewal M, Donahue R, Gill TM, Nie H, Ron D, Janak PH.
• Current Topics in Behavioral Neuroscience-Behavioral Neurobiology of Alcohol Addiction
  Signaling pathways mediating alcohol effects 2012 Ron D, Messing RO
• J Biol Chem
  Direct interaction between scaffolding proteins RACK1 and 14-3-3zeta regulates brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) transcription. 2012 Neasta J, Kiely PA, He DY, Adams DR, O'Connor R, Ron D.
• J Neurosci
  The small G protein H-Ras in the mesolimbic system is a molecular gateway to alcohol-seeking and excessive drinking behaviors 2012 Ben Hamida S, Neasta J, Lasek AW, Kharazia V, Zou M, Carnicella S, Janak PH, Ron D.
• J Neurosci
  Ethanol-mediated facilitation of AMPA receptor function in the dorsomedial striatum: Implications for alcohol drinking behavior 2012 Wang J, Ben Hamida S, Darcq E, Zhu W, Gibb SL, Lanfranco MF, Carnicella S and Ron D.
• RACK1, A multifaceted scaffolding protein: Structure and function.
  Cell communication and signaling : CCS 2011 Adams DR, Ron D, Kiely PA
• Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor reverses alcohol-induced allostasis of the mesolimbic dopaminergic system: implications for alcohol reward and seeking.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011 Barak S, Carnicella S, Yowell QV, Ron D
• Striatal involvement in human alcoholism and alcohol consumption, and withdrawal in animal models.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2011 Chen G, Cuzon Carlson VC, Wang J, Beck A, Heinz A, Ron D, Lovinger DM, Buck KJ
• AKT signaling pathway in the nucleus accumbens mediates excessive alcohol drinking behaviors.
  Biological psychiatry 2011 Neasta J, Ben Hamida S, Yowell QV, Carnicella S, Ron D
• Ethanol-mediated long-lasting adaptations of the NR2B-containing NMDA receptors in the dorsomedial striatum.
  Channels (Austin, Tex.) 2011 Wang J, Lanfranco MF, Gibb SL, Ron D
• Extrasynaptic delta-containing GABAA receptors in the nucleus accumbens dorsomedial shell contribute to alcohol intake.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2011 Nie H, Rewal M, Gill TM, Ron D, Janak PH
• Lyn kinase regulates mesolimbic dopamine release: implication for alcohol reward.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2011 Gibb SL, Jeanblanc J, Barak S, Yowell QV, Yaka R, Ron D
• J Neurochem
  Ethanol-induced increase in Fyn kinase activity in the dorsomedial striatum is associated with subcellular redistribution of protein tyrosine phosphatase alpha 2011 Gibb SL, Ben Hamida S, Lanfranco MF, Ron D
• J Neurochem
  Ethanol-induced increase in Fyn kinase activity in the dorsomedial striatum is associated with subcellular redistribution of protein tyrosine phosphatase alpha. 2011 Gibb SL, Hamida SB, Lanfranco MF, Ron D.
• Signaling Pathways Mediating Alcohol Effects.
  Behavioral Neurobiology of Alcohol Addiction 2011 Dorit Ron, Robert O. Messing
• Role for mammalian target of rapamycin complex 1 signaling in neuroadaptations underlying alcohol-related disorders.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2010 Neasta J, Ben Hamida S, Yowell Q, Carnicella S, Ron D
• Nucleus accumbens-derived glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor is a retrograde enhancer of dopaminergic tone in the mesocorticolimbic system.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2010 Wang J, Carnicella S, Ahmadiantehrani S, He DY, Barak S, Kharazia V, Ben Hamida S, Zapata A, Shippenberg TS, Ron D
• Regulation of operant oral ethanol self-administration: a dose-response curve study in rats.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2010 Carnicella S, Yowell QV, Ron D
• Noribogaine, but not 18-MC, exhibits similar actions as ibogaine on GDNF expression and ethanol self-administration.
  Addiction biology 2010 Carnicella S, He DY, Yowell QV, Glick SD, Ron D
• Epigenetic regulation of BDNF expression via the scaffolding protein RACK1.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2010 He DY, Neasta J, Ron D
• Endogenous BDNF in the dorsolateral striatum gates alcohol drinking.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009 Jeanblanc J, He DY, Carnicella S, Kharazia V, Janak PH, Ron D
• Blockade of ethanol reward by the kappa opioid receptor agonist U50,488H.
  Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) 2009 Logrip ML, Janak PH, Ron D
• Escalating ethanol intake is associated with altered corticostriatal BDNF expression.
  Journal of neurochemistry 2009 Logrip ML, Janak PH, Ron D
• GDNF is an endogenous negative regulator of ethanol-mediated reward and of ethanol consumption after a period of abstinence.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2009 Carnicella S, Ahmadiantehrani S, Janak PH, Ron D
• Cabergoline decreases alcohol drinking and seeking behaviors via glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor.
  Biological psychiatry 2009 Carnicella S, Ahmadiantehrani S, He DY, Nielsen CK, Bartlett SE, Janak PH, Ron D
• Excessive alcohol consumption is blocked by glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor.
  Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) 2009 Carnicella S, Amamoto R, Ron D
• Alpha4-containing GABAA receptors in the nucleus accumbens mediate moderate intake of alcohol.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2009 Rewal M, Jurd R, Gill TM, He DY, Ron D, Janak PH
• GDNF--a potential target to treat addiction.
  Pharmacology & therapeutics 2008 Carnicella S, Ron D
• PKCbetaII modulates translation independently from mTOR and through RACK1.
  The Biochemical journal 2008 Grosso S, Volta V, Sala LA, Vietri M, Marchisio PC, Ron D, Biffo S
• GDNF is a fast-acting potent inhibitor of alcohol consumption and relapse.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2008 Carnicella S, Kharazia V, Jeanblanc J, Janak PH, Ron D
• Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor reverses ethanol-mediated increases in tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity via altering the activity of heat shock protein 90.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2008 He DY, Ron D
• Dynorphin is a downstream effector of striatal BDNF regulation of ethanol intake.
  FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2008 Logrip ML, Janak PH, Ron D
• Mind bomb-2 is an E3 ligase that ubiquitinates the N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor NR2B subunit in a phosphorylation-dependent manner.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2007 Jurd R, Thornton C, Wang J, Luong K, Phamluong K, Kharazia V, Gibb SL, Ron D
• Protein kinase C and alcohol addiction.
  Pharmacological research 2007 Newton PM, Ron D
• Ethanol induces long-term facilitation of NR2B-NMDA receptor activity in the dorsal striatum: implications for alcohol drinking behavior.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2007 Wang J, Carnicella S, Phamluong K, Jeanblanc J, Ronesi JA, Chaudhri N, Janak PH, Lovinger DM, Ron D
• Autoregulation of glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor expression: implications for the long-lasting actions of the anti-addiction drug, Ibogaine.
  FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology 2006 He DY, Ron D
• Cocaine enhances NMDA receptor-mediated currents in ventral tegmental area cells via dopamine D5 receptor-dependent redistribution of NMDA receptors.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006 Schilström B, Yaka R, Argilli E, Suvarna N, Schumann J, Chen BT, Carman M, Singh V, Mailliard WS, Ron D, Bonci A
• Insulin-like growth factor I controls a mutually exclusive association of RACK1 with protein phosphatase 2A and beta1 integrin to promote cell migration.
  Molecular and cellular biology 2006 Kiely PA, O'Gorman D, Luong K, Ron D, O'Connor R
• Homer isoforms differentially regulate cocaine-induced neuroplasticity.
  Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology 2006 Szumlinski KK, Abernathy KE, Oleson EB, Klugmann M, Lominac KD, He DY, Ron D, During M, Kalivas PW
• BIG news in alcohol addiction: new findings on growth factor pathways BDNF, insulin, and GDNF.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2006 Janak PH, Wolf FW, Heberlein U, Pandey SC, Logrip ML, Ron D
• From blue states to up states: a regional view of NMDA-ethanol interactions.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2006 Woodward JJ, Ron D, Winder D, Roberto M
• The dopamine D3 receptor is part of a homeostatic pathway regulating ethanol consumption.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2006 Jeanblanc J, He DY, McGough NN, Logrip ML, Phamluong K, Janak PH, Ron D
• The "ups and downs" of signaling cascades in addiction.
  Science's STKE : signal transduction knowledge environment 2005 Ron D, Jurd R
• Ethanol alters trafficking and functional N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor NR2 subunit ratio via H-Ras.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2005 Suvarna N, Borgland SL, Wang J, Phamluong K, Auberson YP, Bonci A, Ron D
• Glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor mediates the desirable actions of the anti-addiction drug ibogaine against alcohol consumption.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2005 He DY, McGough NN, Ravindranathan A, Jeanblanc J, Logrip ML, Phamluong K, Janak PH, Ron D
• GDNF and addiction.
  Reviews in the neurosciences 2005 Ron D, Janak PH
• RACK1 and brain-derived neurotrophic factor: a homeostatic pathway that regulates alcohol addiction.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2004 McGough NN, He DY, Logrip ML, Jeanblanc J, Phamluong K, Luong K, Kharazia V, Janak PH, Ron D
• Signaling cascades regulating NMDA receptor sensitivity to ethanol.
  The Neuroscientist : a review journal bringing neurobiology, neurology and psychiatry 2004 Ron D
• Spatial and temporal regulation of RACK1 function and N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor activity through WD40 motif-mediated dimerization.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2004 Thornton C, Tang KC, Phamluong K, Luong K, Vagts A, Nikanjam D, Yaka R, Ron D
• Fyn kinase and NR2B-containing NMDA receptors regulate acute ethanol sensitivity but not ethanol intake or conditioned reward.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2003 Yaka R, Tang KC, Camarini R, Janak PH, Ron D
• Cellular adaptation to chronic ethanol results in altered compartmentalization and function of the scaffolding protein RACK1.
  Alcoholism, clinical and experimental research 2003 Vagts AJ, He DY, Yaka R, Ron D
• Corticotropin-releasing factor requires CRF binding protein to potentiate NMDA receptors via CRF receptor 2 in dopamine neurons.
  Neuron 2003 Ungless MA, Singh V, Crowder TL, Yaka R, Ron D, Bonci A
• Scaffolding of Fyn kinase to the NMDA receptor determines brain region sensitivity to ethanol.
  The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience 2003 Yaka R, Phamluong K, Ron D
• H-Ras modulates N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor function via inhibition of Src tyrosine kinase activity.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2003 Thornton C, Yaka R, Dinh S, Ron D
• Pituitary adenylate cyclase-activating polypeptide (PACAP(1-38)) enhances N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor function and brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression via RACK1.
  The Journal of biological chemistry 2003 Yaka R, He DY, Phamluong K, Ron D
• Alcohol addiction.
  Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2003 Olive MF, Ron D
• Glutathione S-transferase pull-down assay.
  Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) 2003 Schechtman D, Mochly-Rosen D, Ron D
• Ethanol induces gene expression via nuclear compartmentalization of receptor for activated C kinase 1.
  Molecular pharmacology 2002 He DY, Vagts AJ, Yaka R, Ron D
• NMDA receptor function is regulated by the inhibitory scaffolding protein, RACK1.
  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 2002 Yaka R, Thornton C, Vagts AJ, Phamluong K, Bonci A, Ron D