Cocaine is self-administered into the shell region of the nucleus accumbens in Wistar rats

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 877, Issue , 1999, Pages 788-791

  McKinzie, D L ^a   Rodd Henricks, Z A ^a   Dagon, C T ^a   Murphy, J M ^a   McBride, W J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ABUSE; FEMALE; INTRACEREBRAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SELF MEDICATION;

EID: 0032773422     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1999.tb09323.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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