Discrimination of cocaethylene in rats trained to discriminate between its components

European Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 320, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 1-7

  Schechter, Martin D ^a  

^a NORTHEAST OHIO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaethylene drug drug discrimination; Cocaine; Dose response; Ethanol; Rat; Stimulus properties of drugs

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE; HOMOCOCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DISCRIMINATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ETHANOL; MALE; RATS;

EID: 0031050977     PISSN: 00142999     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0014-2999(96)00876-X     Document Type: Article

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