Corticosterone facilitates the acquisition of cocaine self- administration in rats: Opposite effects of the type II glucocorticoid receptor agonist dexamethasone

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 287, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 72-80

  Mantsch, John R ^a   Saphier, David ^a   Goeders, Nick E ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIV MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; EFFECTOR CELL; FACILITATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; REINFORCEMENT; STRESS; VEIN CATHETERIZATION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ALDOSTERONE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; COCAINE; CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ADMINISTRATION; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 0032463958     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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