Individual differences in pavlovian autoshaping of lever pressing in rats predict stress-induced corticosterone release and mesolimbic levels of monoamines

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 65, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 509-517

  Tomie, Arthur ^a   Aguado, Allison S ^a   Pohorecky, Larissa A ^a   Benjamin, Daniel ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Autoshaping; Corticosterone; Dopamine; Drug abuse; Individual differences; Lever press; Pavlovian conditioning; Rats; Serotonin; Stress

Indexed keywords

BRAIN MONOAMINE; CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; CONDITIONED REFLEX; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG ABUSE; INDIVIDUALITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MONOAMINE METABOLISM; NONHUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; BIOGENIC MONOAMINES; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; CORTICOSTERONE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0033970269     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(99)00241-5     Document Type: Article

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