Sensitivity to cocaine conditioned reward depends on sex and age

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 92, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 131-134

  Zakharova, Elena ^a   Wade, Dean ^a   Izenwasser, Sari ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescent; Cocaine; Conditioned place preference; Female; Male; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

COCAINE;

AGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENT; DRUG SENSITIVITY; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SEX; TRAINING;

AGING; ANIMALS; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; FEMALE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REWARD; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 58549084163     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2008.11.002     Document Type: Article

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