Influencing the specificity of drug mixture discriminations by varying the training procedure

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 10, Issue 6-7, 1999, Pages 657-664

  Stolerman, I P ^a   Mariathasan, E A ^a   White, J A W ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Drug discrimination; Midazolam; Nicotine; Pentobarbitone; Rat

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; MIDAZOLAM; NICOTINE; PENTOBARBITAL; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINATIVE STIMULUS; DRUG DISCRIMINATION; DRUG MIXTURE; FOOD INTAKE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE DRUG ABUSE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TRAINING;

EID: 0033397126     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00008877-199911000-00012     Document Type: Article

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