Reduced forebrain serotonin transmission is causally involved in the development of compulsive cocaine seeking in rats

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 37, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 2505-2514

  Pelloux, Yann ^a,b   Dilleen, Ruth ^a   Economidou, Daina ^a   Theobald, David ^a   Everitt, Barry J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

5 HT2C receptors; addiction; cocaine; compulsivity; punishment; serotonin

Indexed keywords

(3 CHLOROPHENYL)PIPERAZINE; 6 CHLORO 5 METHYL 1 [[2 [(2 METHYL 3 PYRIDYL)OXY] 5 PYRIDYL]CARBAMOYL]INDOLINE; ATOMOXETINE; CITALOPRAM; DESIPRAMINE; SEROTONIN; VOLINANSERIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMPULSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FOREBRAIN; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC TRANSMISSION; STRIATE CORTEX;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 5,7-DIHYDROXYTRYPTAMINE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; MALE; PROSENCEPHALON; PUNISHMENT; RATS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGENTS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866403791     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2012.111     Document Type: Article

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