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A/PROF JOHN DRAGO



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Organization: Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Position: Honorary (Principal Fellow)
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Grants and Contracts

Research Grants, Contracts and Consultancies awarded to the University of Melbourne as the administering institution (since 2003) as recorded in Themis Agreements.

Grants

Title Role Funding Source Scheme Award Date
NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship Chief Investigator NHMRC Practitioner Fellowship 01/01/2003
Movement disorders studied in transgenic mice Chief Investigator NHMRC Project Grants 01/01/2008
NHMRC PRACTITIONER FELLOWSHIP Chief Investigator NHMRC Research Fellowship 01/01/2008

Publications

Publications produced at the University of Melbourne and reported in the Annual Publications Collection and 'Research Report' since 2001. The Themis Publications module, released in November 2006, allows additional publications from previous institutions and publications from past years to be entered.

Publications in 2007

Journal Articles

  • Ablation of D1 dopamine receptor-expressing cells generates mice with seizures, dystonia, hperactivity and impaired oral behavior
    Year: 2007
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 104
    Issue: 10
    Page numbers: 4182-4187
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Publications in 2006

Journal Articles

  • Comparison of ethanol perference and neurochemical measures of mesolimbic dopamine and adenosine systems across different strains of mice
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Alcoholism - Clinical and Experimental Research
    Volume: 30
    Issue: 4
    Page numbers: 606-620
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  • Genetic interdependence of adenosine and dopamine receptors: evidence from receptor knockout mice
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Neuroscience
    Volume: 139
    Page numbers: 661-670
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  • Receptor Crosstalk: Characterization of Mice Deficient in Dopamine D1 and Adenosine A2A Receptors
    Year: 2006
    Journal: Neuropsychopharmacology
    Volume: 31
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 525-34
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Publications in 2005

Journal Articles

  • Haloperidol treatment reverses behavioural and anatomical changes in cocaine-dependent mice
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Neurobiology of Disease
    Volume: 19
    Issue: 1-2
    Page numbers: 301-311
    Publisher: Academic Press(California)
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  • Mice lacking the α4 nicotinic receptor subunit fail to modulate dopaminergic neuronal arbors and posses impaired dopamine transporter function
    Year: 2005
    Journal: Molecular Pharmacology
    Volume: 68
    Issue: 5
    Page numbers: 1-11
    Publisher: American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics(Maryland)
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Major Reference Works

  • The use of dopamine receptor knockout mice in understanding brain dopamine neurotransmission and sprouting in the nigrostriatal pathway:Handbook of Chemical Neuroanatomy: Dopamine
    Year: 2005
    Reference Work Title: The use of dopamine receptor knockout mice in understanding brain dopamine neurotransmission and sprouting in the nigrostriatal pathway
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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Publications in 2004

Journal Articles

  • Comparative phenotypic resolution of spontaneous, D2-like and D1-like agonist-induced orofacial movement topographies in congenic mutants with dopamine D2 vs. D3 receptor "knockout"
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Synapse
    Volume: 51
    Page numbers: 71-81
    Publisher: Wiley-Liss(New Jersey)
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  • D1-like dopamine receptor-mediated function in congenic mutants with D1 vs. D5 receptor "knockout"
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Journal of Receptors and Signal Transduction
    Volume: 24
    Issue: 3
    Page numbers: 107-116
    Publisher: Marcel Dekker(New York)
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  • Glial responses associated with dopaminergic striatal reinnervation following lesions of the rat substantia nigra
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Brain Research
    Volume: 1023
    Page numbers: 83-91
    Publisher: Elsevier Science(Amsterdam)
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  • Simultaneous absence of dopamine D1 and D2 receptor-mediated signaling is lethal in mice
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
    Volume: 101
    Page numbers: 11465-11470
    Publisher: National Academy of Sciences(Washington DC)
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  • Subunit composition and pharmacology of two classes of striatal presynaptic nicotinic acetylcholine receptors mediating dopamine release in mice
    Year: 2004
    Journal: Molecular Pharmacology
    Volume: 65
    Issue: 6
    Page numbers: 1526-1535
    Publisher: American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics(Maryland)
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Publications in 2003

Journal Articles

  • Changes in function and ultrastructure of striatal dopaminergic terminals that regenerate following partial lesions of the SNpc
    Year: 2003
    Journal: Journal of Neurochemistry
    Volume: 86
    Page numbers: 329-343
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  • D2 Dopamine receptor blockade results in sprouting of DA axons in the intact animal but prevents sprouting following nigral lesions
    Year: 2003
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 17
    Issue: 2003
    Page numbers: 1033-1045
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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  • Timecourse of striatal re-innervation following lesions of dopaminergic SNpc neurons of the rat
    Year: 2003
    Journal: European Journal of Neuroscience
    Volume: 18
    Page numbers: 1-14
    Publisher: Blackwell Science(Oxford)
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