Some determinants of morphine effects on intracranial self-stimulation in rats: Dose, pretreatment time, repeated treatment, and rate dependence

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 663-673

  Altarifi, Ahmad A ^a   Negus, Sidney Stevens ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

drug abuse; intracranial self stimulation; morphine; morphine addiction; morphine dependence; rat

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DRUG ABUSE; ELECTRODE; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; NONHUMAN; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SELF STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTRODES, IMPLANTED; MALE; MEDIAL FOREBRAIN BUNDLE; MORPHINE; MORPHINE DEPENDENCE; NARCOTICS; OPIOID-RELATED DISORDERS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF STIMULATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 80052922784     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e32834aff54     Document Type: Article

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