Environmental enrichment protects against the acquisition of cocaine self-administration in adult male rats, but does not eliminate avoidance of a drug-associated saccharin cue

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 43-53

  Puhl, Matthew D ^a   Blum, Joshua S ^a   Acosta Torres, Stefany ^a   Grigson, Patricia S ^a  

^a PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

cocaine self administration; drug addiction; environmental impact; reward

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; POLYETHYLENE; SACCHARIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CAGE; CATHETERIZATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PAPER; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TUBE; VEIN GRAFT;

AGING; ANIMALS; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CUES; ENVIRONMENT; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SACCHARIN; SELF ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84855666714     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e32834eb060     Document Type: Article

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