Correlation between serum ghrelin levels and cocaine-seeking behaviour triggered by cocaine-associated conditioned stimuli in rats

Addiction Biology

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 22-29

  Tessari, Michela ^a,b   Catalano, Antonio ^a   Pellitteri, Michele ^a   Di Francesco, Carla ^a   Marini, Francesca ^a   Gerrard, Philip A ^a   Heidbreder, Christian A ^a   Melotto, Sergio ^a  

^a Centre of Excellence for Drug Discovery in Psychiatry   (Italy)

^b GSK   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Cocaine associated; Cocaine seeking behaviour; Conditioned stimuli; Cues; Ghrelin; Reinstatement

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; CORTICOSTERONE; GHRELIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD SAMPLING; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG EXPOSURE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; CUES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MOTIVATION; PEPTIDE HORMONES; RATS; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; STATISTICS;

EID: 33947146710     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2007.00052.x     Document Type: Article

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