Effects of chronic lead exposure on cocaine-induced disturbance of fixed-interval behavior

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 117-121

  Burkey, Robert T ^a   Nation, Jack R ^a   Grover, Cathy A ^a   Bratton, Gerald R ^b  

^a TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

behavior; cocaine; fixed interval schedules; lead

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; LEAD ACETATE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FLUID INTAKE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DRINKING; LEAD POISONING; MALE; NARCOTICS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE;

EID: 0031013549     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(96)00167-0     Document Type: Article

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