Behavioral responding and nucleus accumbens cell firing are unaltered following periods of abstinence from sucrose

Synapse

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 219-228

  Jones, Joshua L ^a   Wheeler, Robert A ^a   Carelli, Regina M ^a  

^a University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Relapse; Reward; Self administration

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; BEHAVIOR; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG WITHDRAWAL; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; RELAPSE; REWARD;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; MALE; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 38749117154     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20486     Document Type: Article

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