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| Valentina Bassareo, PhD |
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| Assistant Professor, School of Pharmacy |
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Affiliations: Department of Toxicology and Centre of Excellence on Neurobiology of Addictions
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Unit of Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy
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| Phone: ++39-070-6758660 (lab) - 8633 (off) |
| Fax: ++39-070-6758665 |
| Email:bassareo@unica.it |
| Research Interests |
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The major research interests: Nucleus Accumbens shell, core and prefrontal cortex dopamine responsiveness to drug of abuse and food. Difference between drug and food conditioned stimuli impact on dopamine transmission in the mesolimbic and mesocortical systems.
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Biographical Information |
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Valentina Bassareo has been Assistant Professor of Pharmacology since 2002. Prior to that she was a Post-doc at the Department of Toxicology of the University of Cagliari (1993-1996 Diploma of Doctoral Degree in Toxicology, Specialization School of “Toxicology”, University of Cagliari and 1996-2001 Diploma of Postdoctoral Degree, University of Cagliari).
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| Selected Publications (from 2000) |
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BASSAREO V, DE LUCA MA, DI CHIARA G (2007) Differential impact of pavlovian drug conditioned stimuli on in vivo dopamine transmission in the rat accumbens shell and core and in the prefrontal cortex. Psychopharmacology (Berl), 191(3): 689-70
DI CHIARA G, BASSAREO V (2007) Reward system and addiction: what dopamine does and doesn't do. Curr Opin Pharmacol.Feb; 7 (1): 69-76.
DE LUCA MA, BASSAREO V., BAUER A, DI CHIARA G. (2007). Caffeine and accumbens shell dopamine. Journal of Neurochemistry. vol. Oct 103(1), pp. 157-63.
DI CHIARA G, BASSAREO V. (2007). Reward system and addiction: what dopamine does and doesn't do. CURRENT OPINION IN PHARMACOLOGY. vol. Epub ahead of print ISSN: 1471-4892.
BASSAREO V., DE LUCA MA, DI CHIARA G. (2006). Differential impact of pavlovian drug conditioned stimuli on in vivo dopamine transmission in the rat accumbens shell and core and in the prefrontal cortex. PSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY. vol. Epub ahead of print ISSN: 0033-3158.
DI CHIARA G, BASSAREO V., FENU S, DE LUCA MA, SPINA L, CADONI C, ACQUAS E, CARBONI E, VALENTINI V, LECCA D. (2004). Dopamine and drug addiction: the nucleus accumbens shell connection. NEUROPHARMACOLOGY. vol. 47 (1), pp. 227-241 ISSN: 0028-3908.
BASSAREO V., M.A DE LUCA, M. ARESU, A. ASTE, T. ARIU AND G. DI CHIARA. (2003). Differential adaptive properties of accumbens shell dopamine responses to ethanol as a drug and as a motivational stimulus. EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. vol. 17 (7), pp. 1465-1472 ISSN: 0953-816X.
BASSAREO V., M.A DE LUCA AND G. DI CHIARA. (2002). Differential expression of motivational stimulus properties by dopamine in nucleus accumbens shell versus core and prefrontal cortex. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. vol. 22 (11), pp. 4709-4719 ISSN: 0270-6474.
S. FENU, BASSAREO V., DI CHIARA G. (2001). A role for dopamine D1 receptors of the Nucleus Accumbens shell in conditioned taste aversion learning. JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE. vol. 21(17), pp. 6897-6904 ISSN: 0270-6474
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| Acquas Elio, PhD |
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| Angioni Alberto, PhD |
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| Balboni Gianfranco, PhD |
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| Ballero Mauro, PhD |
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| Bassareo Valentina, PhD |
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| Caboni Pierluigi, PhD |
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| Cabras Paolo, PhD |
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| Carboni Ezio, PhD |
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| Carta Annarosa, PhD |
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| Cocco Maria Teresa, PhD |
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| Columbano Amedeo, PhD |
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| Congiu Cenzo, PhD |
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| Corda Giuseppa M., PhD |
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| Coroneo Valentina, PhD |
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| Dessì Maria Assunta, PhD |
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| Dessì Sandro, PhD |
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| Diana Marco, MD |
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| Di Chiara Gaetano, MD |
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| Fenu Sandro, PhD |
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| Garau Vincenzo, PhD |
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| Giorgi Osvaldo, MD |
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| Ledda Giovanna Maria, PhD |
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| Melis Marinella, PhD |
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| Morelli Micaela, PhD |
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| Muntoni Sandro, MD |
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| Onnis Valentina, PhD |
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| Pibiri Monica, PhD |
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| Pirisi Filippo M., PhD |
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| Ramadori Giuliano, MD |
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| Simbula Gabriella, PhD |
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| Spina Liliana, PhD |
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| Tuberoso Carlo, PhD |
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| Valentini Valentina, Phd |
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| Weisz Alessandro, MD |
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