Influence of sex, estrous cycle, and drug-onset age on cocaine self-administration in rats (Rattus norvegicus)

Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 37-47

  Kantak, Kathleen M ^a   Goodrich, Claudia M ^a   Uribe, Valeria ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Adults; Cocaine; Estrous cycle; Rats; Self administration; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIESTRUS; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; MALE; METESTRUS; NONHUMAN; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANESTHETICS, LOCAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; INFUSION PUMPS; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SEX FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33846972007     PISSN: 10641297     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1064-1297.15.1.37     Document Type: Article

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