Intracranial Self-Administration of Ethanol within the Ventral Tegmental Area of Male Wistar Rats: Evidence for Involvement of Dopamine Neurons

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 1050-1057

  Rodd, Zachary A ^a   Melendez, Roberto I ^a,b   Bell, Richard L ^a   Kuc, Kelly A ^a   Zhang, Ying ^a,b   Murphy, James M ^a,b   McBride, William J ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Ethanol reinforcement; Intracranial self administration; Quinpirole; Sulpiride; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; QUINPIROLE; SULPIRIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ALCOHOL-RELATED DISORDERS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE AGONISTS; DOPAMINE ANTAGONISTS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; ETHANOL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; NEURONS; QUINPIROLE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ADMINISTRATION; SEX FACTORS; SULPIRIDE; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0842282479     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1319-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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