Gonzales, Rueben A., Ph.D.
Professor
PHR 5.224C
512-471-5192
rgonzales@mail.utexas.edu

The following publications are from a list of 79.

• Theile, J.W., Morikawa, H., Gonzales, R.A., Morrisett, R.A. Role of 5-HT2c receptors in Ca2+-dependent ethanol potentiation of GABA release onto ventral tegmental area dopamine neurons, J. Pharmacol. Exp. Ther.,329: 625-33, 2009.


• Robinson, D.L., Howard, E.C., McConnell, S., Gonzales, R.A., Wightman, R.M. Disparity between tonic and phasic ethanol-induced dopamine increases in the nucleus accumbens of rats, Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res., in press.


• Howard, E.C., Schier, C.J., Wetzel, J.S., Duvauchelle, C.L., Gonzales, R.A. The shell of the nucleus accumbens has a higher dopamine response compared with the core after non-contingent intravenous ethanol administration, Neuroscience 154: 1042-1053, 2008.


• Theile, J., Morikawa, H., Gonzales, R.A., Morrisett, R.A. Ethanol enhances GABAergic transmission onto dopamine neurons in the ventral tegmental area of the rat, Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 32: 1040-1048, 2008.


• Carrillo, J., Howard, E.C., Moten, M., Houck, B.D., Czachowski, C.L., Gonzales, R.A. A three-day exposure to 10% ethanol with 10% sucrose successfully initiates ethanol self-administration, Alcohol 42: 171-178, 2008.
  


• Ramachandra, V., Phuc, S., Franco, A.C., Gonzales, R.A. Ethanol preference is inversely correlated with ethanol-induced dopamine release in two substrains of C57BL/6 mice, Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 31: 1669-76, 2007.


• Job, M.J., Tang, A., Hall, F.S., Sora, I., Uhl, G.R., Bergeson, S.E., Gonzales, R.A. Mu opioid receptor regulation of ethanol-induced dopamine response in the ventral striatum: evidence of genotype specific sexual dimorphic epistasis, Biol. Psychiatry, 62: 627-34, 2007.


• Zapata, A., Gonzales, R.A., Shippenberg, T.S. Repeated ethanol intoxication induces behavioral sensitization in the absence of a sensitized accumbens dopamine response in C57BL/6J and DBA/2J mice. Neuropsychopharmacology 31:396-405, 2006


• Job, M.O., Ramachandra, V., Anders, S. Low, M.J., Gonzales, R.A. Reduced basal and ethanol stimulation of striatal extracellular dopamine concentrations in dopamine D2 receptor knockout mice, Synapse 60: 158-64, 2006.


• Doyon, W.M., Anders, S.K., Ramachandra, V.S., Czachowski, C.L., and Gonzales, R.A.  Effect of operant self-administration of 10% ethanol plus 10% sucrose on dopamine and ethanol concentrations in the nucleus accumbens.  J. Neurochem. 93: 1469-1481, 2005.


• Gonzales, R.A., Job, M.O., Doyon, W.M.  The role of dopamine in the development and maintenance of ethanol reinforcement.  Pharmacol. Ther. 103: 121-146, 2004.


• Doyon, W.M., Ramachandra, V., Samson, H.H., Czachowski, C.L., and Gonzales, R.A.  Accumbal dopamine during operant self-administration of sucrose or sucrose with ethanol.  Alcohol 34: 261-271, 2004.


• Doyon, W., York, J.L., Diaz, L.M., Samson, H.H., Czachowski, C.L., and Gonzales, R.A.  Dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens during consummatory phases of ethanol self-administration.  Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 27: 1573-82, 2003.


• Tang, A., Bungay, P.M., and Gonzales, R.A.  Characterization of probe and tissue factors that influence interpretation of quantitative microdialysis experiments for dopamine, J. Neurosci. Methods 126: 1-11, 2003.


• Tang, A., George, M.A., Randall, J.A., and Gonzales, R.A. Ethanol increases extracellular dopamine concentration in the ventral striatum in C57BL/6 mice, Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 27: 1083-9, 2003.


• Doyon, W., York, J.L., Diaz, L.M., Samson, H.H., Czachowski, C.L., and Gonzales, R.A.  Dopamine activity in the nucleus accumbens during consummatory phases of ethanol self-administration.  Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 27: 1573-82, 2003.


• Gonzales, R.A., Tang, A., Robinson, D.L. Quantitative microdialysis for in vivo studies of pharmacodynamics. In: Methods for Alcohol Related Neuroscience Research. Y. Liu and D. Lovinger, Eds., CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL, 2002, pp. 287-317.


• Robinson, D.L., Brunner, L., Gonzales, R.A. Effect of gender and estrous cycle on the pharmacokinetics of ethanol in the rat brain. Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 26: 165-172, 2002.


• Maldve, R.E., Zhang, T.L., Ferrani-Kile, K., Lippmann, M., Schreiber, S.S., Snyder, G.L., Fienberg, A.A., Leslie, S.W., Gonzales, R.A., and Morrisett, R.A. The DARPP-32 cascade and regulation of the ethanol sensitivity of NMDA receptors in the nucleus accumbens, Nature Neurosci.. 5: 641-648, 2002.


• Ludvig, N.L., George, M.A., Tang, H.M., Gonzales, R.A., and Bungay, P.M. Evidence for the ability of hippocampal neurons to develop acute tolerance to ethanol in behaving rats, Brain Res., 900: 252-260, 2001.


• Jaworski, J.N., Gonzales, R.A., and Randall, P.K. Effect of dopamine D2/D3 receptor antagonist sulpiride on amphetamine-induced changes in striatal extracellular dopamine, Eur. J. Pharmacol., 418: 201-6, 2001.


• Yim, H.J., Robinson, D.L., White, M.L., Jaworski, J.N., Randall, P.K., Lancaster, F.E., and Gonzales, R.A., Dissociation between the time course of ethanol and extracellular concentrations in the nucleus accumbens after a single intraperitoneal injection, Alcohol Clin. Exp. Res. 24, 781-788, 2000.


• Yim, H.J. and Gonzales, R.A.  Ethanol-induced increases in dopamine extracellular concentration in rat nucleus accumbens are accounted for by increased release and not uptake inhibition, Alcohol 22: 107-115, 2000.


• Robinson, D.L., Lara, J. A., Brunner, L. J., and Gonzales, R.A. Quantification of ethanol concentrations in the extracellular fluid of the rat brain: in vivo calibration of microdialysis probes, J. Neurochem., 75: 1685-1693, 2000.