Altered nicotine reward-associated behavior following α4 nAChR subunit deletion in ventral midbrain

• Can Peng ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Can Peng, Staci E. Engle

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Staci E. Engle ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Can Peng, Staci E. Engle

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization

  Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Yijin Yan,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• Marcus M. Weera,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Jennifer N. Berry,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation

  Affiliation Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Matthew C. Arvin,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Guiqing Zhao,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America

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• J. Michael McIntosh,

  Roles Methodology, Resources

  Affiliation George E. Wahlen Veterans Affairs Medical Center and Departments of Psychiatry and Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

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• Julia A. Chester,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

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• Ryan M. Drenan

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: drenan@northwestern.edu

  Affiliations Department of Pharmacology, Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Department of Medicinal Chemistry and Molecular Pharmacology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8141-8577

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