The conditional stimulus effects of nicotine vary as a function of training dose

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 18, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 707-716

  Murray, Jennifer E ^a   Bevins, Rick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

Classical conditioning; Discriminative stimulus; Drug discrimination; Goal tracking; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors; Occasion setting; Pavlovian conditioning; Rat; Smoking; Stimulus salience; Tobacco dependence

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; RAT; RESPONSE VARIABLE; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; GENERALIZATION, STIMULUS; MALE; NICOTINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 35948992263     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e3282f14ec6     Document Type: Article

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