Zheng Xiong Xi

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Affiliation: National Institutes of Health
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Mechanism-based medication development for the treatment of nicotine dependence
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Acta Pharmacol Sin 30:723-39. 2009
  2. ncbi Inhibition of NAALADase by 2-PMPA attenuates cocaine-induced relapse in rats: a NAAG-mGluR2/3-mediated mechanism
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    J Neurochem 112:564-76. 2010
  3. ncbi The novel dopamine D3 receptor antagonist NGB 2904 inhibits cocaine's rewarding effects and cocaine-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in rats
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 31:1393-405. 2006
  4. ncbi Cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonist AM251 inhibits cocaine-primed relapse in rats: role of glutamate in the nucleus accumbens
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    J Neurosci 26:8531-6. 2006
  5. ncbi N-acetylaspartylglutamate (NAAG) inhibits intravenous cocaine self-administration and cocaine-enhanced brain-stimulation reward in rats
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropharmacology 58:304-13. 2010
  6. ncbi Levo-tetrahydropalmatine inhibits cocaine's rewarding effects: experiments with self-administration and brain-stimulation reward in rats
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropharmacology 53:771-82. 2007
  7. ncbi Cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonists attenuate cocaine's rewarding effects: experiments with self-administration and brain-stimulation reward in rats
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Chemical Biology Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 33:1735-45. 2008
  8. ncbi Metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 modulates the rewarding effects of cocaine in rats: involvement of a ventral pallidal GABAergic mechanism
    Xia Li
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Chemical Biology Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 34:1783-96. 2009
  9. ncbi Blockade of mesolimbic dopamine D3 receptors inhibits stress-induced reinstatement of cocaine-seeking in rats
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Intramural Research Program, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, 5500 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 176:57-65. 2004
  10. ncbi Effects of gabapentin on cocaine self-administration, cocaine-triggered relapse and cocaine-enhanced nucleus accumbens dopamine in rats
    Xiao Qing Peng
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States
    Drug Alcohol Depend 97:207-15. 2008

Detail Information

Publications30

  1. ncbi Mechanism-based medication development for the treatment of nicotine dependence
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Acta Pharmacol Sin 30:723-39. 2009
    ..For drugs in each category, we discuss the mechanistic rationale for their potential anti-nicotine efficacy, major findings in preclinical and clinical studies, and future research directions...
  2. ncbi Inhibition of NAALADase by 2-PMPA attenuates cocaine-induced relapse in rats: a NAAG-mGluR2/3-mediated mechanism
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    J Neurochem 112:564-76. 2010
    ..These findings suggest that 2-PMPA is effective in attenuating cocaine-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior, likely by attenuating cocaine-induced increases in NAc DA and glutamate via pre-synaptic mGluR2/3s...
  3. ncbi The novel dopamine D3 receptor antagonist NGB 2904 inhibits cocaine's rewarding effects and cocaine-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in rats
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 31:1393-405. 2006
    ..Owing to these properties and to its lack of rewarding effects (as assessed by BSR and by substitution during drug self-administration), NGB 2904 merits further investigation as a potential agent for treatment of cocaine addiction...
  4. ncbi Cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonist AM251 inhibits cocaine-primed relapse in rats: role of glutamate in the nucleus accumbens
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Behavioral Neuroscience Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    J Neurosci 26:8531-6. 2006
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  5. ncbi N-acetylaspartylglutamate (NAAG) inhibits intravenous cocaine self-administration and cocaine-enhanced brain-stimulation reward in rats
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropharmacology 58:304-13. 2010
    ..These data suggest a potential utility for 2-PMPA or NAAG in the treatment of cocaine addiction...
  6. ncbi Levo-tetrahydropalmatine inhibits cocaine's rewarding effects: experiments with self-administration and brain-stimulation reward in rats
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropharmacology 53:771-82. 2007
    ..Together, the present data, combined with previous findings, support the potential use of l-THP for treatment of cocaine addiction...
  7. ncbi Cannabinoid CB1 receptor antagonists attenuate cocaine's rewarding effects: experiments with self-administration and brain-stimulation reward in rats
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Chemical Biology Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 33:1735-45. 2008
    ..Thus, AM 251 or other more potent CB1 receptor antagonists deserve further study as potentially effective anti-cocaine medications...
  8. ncbi Metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 modulates the rewarding effects of cocaine in rats: involvement of a ventral pallidal GABAergic mechanism
    Xia Li
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Chemical Biology Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 34:1783-96. 2009
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  9. ncbi Blockade of mesolimbic dopamine D3 receptors inhibits stress-induced reinstatement of cocaine-seeking in rats
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Intramural Research Program, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, 5500 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 176:57-65. 2004
    ..We have previously shown that selective D3 receptor blockade by the novel D3 antagonist SB-277011A inhibits cocaine's reinforcing action and cocaine-induced reinstatement of cocaine-seeking behavior...
  10. ncbi Effects of gabapentin on cocaine self-administration, cocaine-triggered relapse and cocaine-enhanced nucleus accumbens dopamine in rats
    Xiao Qing Peng
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States
    Drug Alcohol Depend 97:207-15. 2008
    ..This is in striking contrast to positive findings in the same animal models shown by another GABAmimetic--gamma-vinyl GABA (see companion piece to present article)...
  11. ncbi The metabotropic glutamate receptor 7 (mGluR7) allosteric agonist AMN082 modulates nucleus accumbens GABA and glutamate, but not dopamine, in rats
    Xia Li
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, DHHS, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropharmacology 54:542-51. 2008
    ..In contrast to its modulatory effect on GABA and glutamate, the mGluR7 receptor does not appear to modulate NAc DA release...
  12. ncbi Oral administration of the NAALADase inhibitor GPI-5693 attenuates cocaine-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in rats
    Xiao Qing Peng
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Eur J Pharmacol 627:156-61. 2010
    ..These data suggest that orally effective NAAG peptidase inhibitors deserve further study as potential agents for the treatment of cocaine addiction...
  13. ncbi Activation of mGluR7s inhibits cocaine-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior by a nucleus accumbens glutamate-mGluR2/3 mechanism in rats
    Xia Li
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Baltimore, Maryland 21224, USA
    J Neurochem 114:1368-80. 2010
    ..The present findings support the potential use of mGluR7 agonists for the treatment of cocaine addiction...
  14. ncbi Gamma-vinyl GABA inhibits cocaine-triggered reinstatement of drug-seeking behavior in rats by a non-dopaminergic mechanism
    Xiao Qing Peng
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, DHHS, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States
    Drug Alcohol Depend 97:216-25. 2008
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  15. ncbi PG01037, a novel dopamine D3 receptor antagonist, inhibits the effects of methamphetamine in rats
    Amanda E Higley
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Health, Biomedical Research Center, 251 Bayview Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21224 USA
    J Psychopharmacol 25:263-73. 2011
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  16. ncbi Is slow-onset long-acting monoamine transport blockade to cocaine as methadone is to heroin? Implication for anti-addiction medications
    Xiao Qing Peng
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, DHHS, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropsychopharmacology 35:2564-78. 2010
    ..Ideal agonist substitutes for cocaine should fully emulate methadone's actions, that is, functionally antagonizing cocaine's action while blocking monoamine transporters to augment synaptic DA...
  17. ncbi The selective dopamine D3 receptor antagonists SB-277011A and NGB 2904 and the putative partial D3 receptor agonist BP-897 attenuate methamphetamine-enhanced brain stimulation reward in rats
    Krista Spiller
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 196:533-42. 2008
    ..We have previously reported that selective antagonism of brain D3 receptors by SB-277011A or NGB 2904 significantly attenuates cocaine- or nicotine-enhanced brain stimulation reward (BSR)...
  18. ncbi Varenicline attenuates nicotine-enhanced brain-stimulation reward by activation of alpha4beta2 nicotinic receptors in rats
    Krista Spiller
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropharmacology 57:60-6. 2009
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  19. ncbi Brain cannabinoid CB? receptors modulate cocaine's actions in mice
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
    Nat Neurosci 14:1160-6. 2011
    ..These findings suggest that brain CB(2) receptors modulate cocaine's rewarding and locomotor-stimulating effects, likely by a dopamine-dependent mechanism...
  20. ncbi Gamma-vinyl GABA increases nonvesicular release of GABA and glutamate in the nucleus accumbens in rats via action on anion channels and GABA transporters
    Xiao Qing Peng
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 208:511-9. 2010
    ..We have recently reported that gamma-vinyl GABA (GVG), an irreversible GABA transaminase inhibitor, elevates extracellular GABA but fails to alter dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens (NAc)...
  21. ncbi Dopamine D(3) receptor antagonist SB-277011A inhibits methamphetamine self-administration and methamphetamine-induced reinstatement of drug-seeking in rats
    Amanda E Higley
    National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD 21224, United States
    Eur J Pharmacol 659:187-92. 2011
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  22. ncbi Pharmacological actions of NGB 2904, a selective dopamine D3 receptor antagonist, in animal models of drug addiction
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Chemical Biology Research Branch, Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD, USA
    CNS Drug Rev 13:240-59. 2007
    ..In addition, NGB 2904 may also act as a useful tool to study the role of D3 receptors in drug addiction...
  23. ncbi Lower glutamate levels in rostral anterior cingulate of chronic cocaine users - A (1)H-MRS study using TE-averaged PRESS at 3 T with an optimized quantification strategy
    Shaolin Yang
    Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA, National Institutes of Health NIH, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Psychiatry Res 174:171-6. 2009
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  24. ncbi Hypothesis-driven medication discovery for the treatment of psychostimulant addiction
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Curr Drug Abuse Rev 1:303-27. 2008
    ..We conclude that hypothesis-based medication development strategies could significantly promote medication discovery for the effective treatment of psychostimulant addiction...
  25. ncbi The preferential dopamine D3 receptor antagonist S33138 inhibits cocaine reward and cocaine-triggered relapse to drug-seeking behavior in rats
    Xiao Qing Peng
    National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, 251 Bayview Boulevard, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neuropharmacology 56:752-60. 2009
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  26. ncbi Agents in development for the management of cocaine abuse
    David A Gorelick
    Intramural Research Program, National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health, Department of Health and Human Services, 5500 Nathan Shock Drive, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Drugs 64:1547-73. 2004
    ..A recent phase I trial of a "cocaine vaccine" found it to be well tolerated and producing detectable levels of anti-cocaine antibodies for up to 9 months after immunisation...
  27. ncbi Inhibition of non-vesicular glutamate release by group III metabotropic glutamate receptors in the nucleus accumbens
    Zheng Xiong Xi
    Department of Physiology and Neuroscience, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
    J Neurochem 87:1204-12. 2003
    ..Together, these data indicate that group III mGluRs regulate in vivo extracellular glutamate in the nucleus accumbens by inhibiting non-vesicular glutamate release...
  28. ncbi Cocaine-induced brain activation detected by dynamic manganese-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MEMRI)
    Hanbing Lu
    Neuroimaging Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse NIDA, Intramural Research Program, National Institutes of Health, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:2489-94. 2007
    ..These data suggest that MEMRI may serve as a tool for investigating the effects of pharmacological agents and opens an application of MRI to study CNS drug effects at a systems level...
  29. ncbi Cocaine-taking and cocaine-seeking behaviors in rats remain stable after systemic administration of GYKI 52466: a non-competitive AMPA receptor antagonist
    Ratika Srivastava
    National Institute on Drug Abuse, Intramural Research Program, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Neurosci Lett 508:106-9. 2012
    ..We suggest that although AMPA receptors may be involved in cocaine reward and addiction, the AMPA receptor antagonist GYKI 52466 has low therapeutic potential for cocaine addiction treatment...
  30. ncbi Attenuation of basal and cocaine-enhanced locomotion and nucleus accumbens dopamine in cannabinoid CB1-receptor-knockout mice
    Xia Li
    Neuropsychopharmacology Section, Chemical Biology Research Branch, National Institute on Drug Abuse, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA
    Psychopharmacology (Berl) 204:1-11. 2009
    ..Effect of cannabinoid CB1 receptor deletion on cocaine's actions is controversial. This is partly based on findings in CB1-receptor-knockout (CB1(-/-)) mice with CD1 genetic background...