Interaction of cocaine with positive GABAA modulators on the repeated acquisition and performance of response sequences in rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 181, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 217-226

  Quinton, M S ^a   Gerak, L R ^b   Moerschbaecher, J M ^a   Winsauer, P J ^b  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Benzodiazepines; Cocaine; Learning; Lorazepam; Neuroactive steroids; Pregnanolone; Rats

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; ELTANOLONE; LORAZEPAM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG EFFECT; ERROR; EVALUATION; FEMALE; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; LEARNING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FEMALE; GABA MODULATORS; LEARNING; LORAZEPAM; PREGNANOLONE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 27144481064     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-005-2241-3     Document Type: Article

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