Accumbal Neural Responses during the Initiation and Maintenance of Intravenous Cocaine Self-Administration

Journal of Neurophysiology

Volumn 91, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 314-323

  Peoples, Laura L ^a,b   Lynch, Kevin G ^b   Lesnock, Jamie ^a   Gangadhar, Nidhi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; EXPOSURE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SPIKE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; TIME FACTORS; VIDEO RECORDING;

EID: 0347719202     PISSN: 00223077     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/jn.00638.2003     Document Type: Article

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