Anxiogenic-like effects of opiate withdrawal seen in the fear-potentiated startle test, an interdisciplinary probe for drug-related motivational states

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 155, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 242-250

  Fendt, Markus ^a   Mucha, Ronald F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Conditioned fear; Defense reaction; Deprivation; Emotion; Fentanyl; Homeostatic; Incentive; Motivation; Naloxone; Opiate; Physical dependence; Startle; Tolerance

Indexed keywords

FENTANYL; NALOXONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; FEAR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALGESICS, OPIOID; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; FEAR; FENTANYL; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MALE; MOTIVATION; NALOXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

EID: 0034997502     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130100709     Document Type: Article

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