Motivational properties of oxytocin in the conditioned place preference paradigm

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 353-359

  Liberzon, Israel ^a,b   Trujillo, Keith A ^c   Akil, Huda ^a   Young, Elizabeth A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Conditioned place preference; Oxytocin; Rats; Reinforcing

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PLACEBO;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; FEMALE; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MOTIVATION; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0030665006     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0893-133X(97)00070-5     Document Type: Article

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