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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Dec 7.
Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2011 Mar 1;216(2):153–171. doi: 10.1007/s00213-011-2222-7

Table 2.

Long-term consequences of exposure to drugs of abuse in nonhuman primates and humans as measured by microdialysis, autoradiography, or neuroimaging

Effect Drug Nonhuman primates Humans
DAT Availability Cocaine 103 16
MDMA/amphetamine 4,28
Methamphetamine 5,6 17,18,19,20,21,27
Morphine 11
D1 receptor availability Methamphetamine 5,24
D2 receptor availability Cocaine 8,9,13,14 15
Methamphetamine 24 19
Dopamine release Cocaine 44 42
SERT Availability Cocaine 1
MDMA 21 25
vMAT levels MDMA 7
Methamphetamine 24
Distribution of cerebral activation Cocaine 12,32,33,34
Cerebral perfusion Cocaine 35,36,37,38,39
Cerebral metabolism Cocaine 1232,33,34 4340,41
White matter integrity Cocaine 22,23
MDMA 25
MRS markers MDMA 29 30,31