Individual differences in cocaine-induced locomotor activity of male Sprague-Dawley rats are not explained by plasma corticosterone levels

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 476, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 9-13

  Nelson, Anna M ^a   Kleschen, Melissa J ^a   Zahniser, Nancy R ^a  

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

Author keywords

Cocaine; Corticosterone; HPA axis; Individual differences; Locomotor activity; Locomotor sensitization

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSITIZATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; COCAINE; CORTICOSTERONE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77952674934     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.03.032     Document Type: Article

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