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Weiping Peng

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MDMA (Ecstasy) controls in concert a group of genes involved in GABA neurotransmission.

FEBS Letters April 9, 2004 Rabi Simantov, Weiping Peng

In several countries, 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) is currently the most abundant psychoactive recreational drug. MDMA induces numerous neuropsychiatric behaviors, serotonergic neuron degeneration, programmed death of cultured cells, hyperthermia and occasional fatality. Using gene expression analysis in MDMA-treated mice, we identified changes in gamma-amino butyric acid (GABA)...