Self-administration of cocaine-pentobarbital mixtures by rhesus monkeys

Drug and Alcohol Dependence

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 272-276

  Woolverton, W L ^a   Wang, Zhixia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; Drug abuse; Drug mixture; Monkey; Pentobarbital; Self administration

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; PENTOBARBITAL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG INHIBITION; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG MIXTURE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REINFORCEMENT; RHESUS MONKEY; SEDATION; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COCAINE; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG COMBINATIONS; MACACA MULATTA; MALE; PENTOBARBITAL; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

MACACA MULATTA;

EID: 58149344997     PISSN: 03768716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2008.10.013     Document Type: Article

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