Peri-response pharmacokinetics of remifentanil during a self-administration session indicates that neither blood nor brain levels are titrated

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1074, Issue , 2006, Pages 497-504

  Crespo, Jose A ^a   Panlilio, Leigh V ^b   Schindler, Charles W ^b   Sturm, Katja ^a   Saria, Alois ^a   Zernig, Gerald ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Accumbens; Blood; Brain; Contingent; Core; Dopamine; Mu; Noncontingent; Opioid; Pharmacokinetics; Plasma; Reinforcement; Remifentanil; Satiation; Self administration; Threshold; Titration

Indexed keywords

MU OPIATE RECEPTOR AGONIST; REMIFENTANIL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; CONFERENCE PAPER; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG BRAIN LEVEL; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SATIETY;

EID: 33749580486     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1369.050     Document Type: Conference Paper

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