A quantitative analysis of the reward-enhancing effects of nicotine using reinforcer demand

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 23, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 781-789

  Barrett, Scott T ^a   Bevins, Rick A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

Author keywords

nicotine; rat; reinforcer demand; reward

Indexed keywords

NICOTINE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; HABITUATION; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; MALE; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; REWARD; STIMULUS RESPONSE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; MALE; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REINFORCEMENT SCHEDULE; REWARD; SELF ADMINISTRATION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84870062215     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e32835a38d9     Document Type: Article

References (36)

1. Barrett ST, Odum AL (2011). The effects of repeated exposure on the rewardenhancing effects of nicotine. Behav Pharmacol 22:283-290.
2. Bevins RA, Besheer J (2001). Individual differences in rat locomotor activity are diminished by nicotine through stimulation of central nicotine acetylcholine receptors. Physiol Behav 72:237-244. (Pubitemid 32184814)
3. Bevins RA, Palmatier MI (2004). Extending the role of associative learning processes in nicotine addiction. Behav Cogn Neurosci Rev 3:143-158.
4. Bevins RA, Besheer J, Pickett KS (2001). Nicotine-conditioned locomotor activity in rats: dopaminergic and GABAergic influences on conditioned expression. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 68:135-145. (Pubitemid 32239449)
5. Brunzell DH, Picciotto MR (2009). Molecular mechanisms underlying the motivational effects of nicotine. In: Bevins RA, Caggiula AR, editors. The motivational impact of nicotine and its role in tobacco use. New York: Springer Science and Business Media; pp. 17-30.
6. Caggiula AR, Donny EC, White AR, Chaudhri N, Booth S, Gharib MA, et al. (2001). Cue dependency of nicotine self-administration and smoking. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 70:515-530. (Pubitemid 34131646)
7. Caggiula AR, Donny EC, Palmatier MI, Liu X, Chaudhri N, Sved AF (2009). The role of nicotine in smoking: a dual reinforcement model. In: Bevins RA, Caggiula AR, editors. The motivational impact of nicotine and its role in tobacco use. New York: Springer Science and Business Media; pp. 91-109.
8. Cassidy RN, Dallery J (2012). Effects of economy type and nicotine on the essential value of food in rats. J Exp Anal Behav 97:183-202.
9. Chaudhri N, Caggiula AR, Donny EC, Booth S, Gharib M, Craven L, et al. (2006a). Operant responding for conditioned and unconditioned reinforcers in rats is differentially enhanced by primary reinforcing and reinforcementenhancing effects of nicotine. Psychopharmacology 189:27-36. (Pubitemid 44607257)
10. Chaudhri N, Caggiula AR, Donny EC, Palmatier MI, Liu X, Sved AF (2006b). Complex interactions between nicotine and nonpharmacological stimulireveal multiple roles for nicotine in reinforcement. Psychopharmacology 184:353-366. (Pubitemid 43255852)
11. Chaudhri N, Caggiula AR, Donny EC, Booth S, Gharib M, Craven L, et al. (2007). Self-adminstered nicotine and noncontingent nicotine enhance reinforced operant responsing in rats: impact of nicotine dose and reinforcement schedule. Psychopharmacology 190:353-362. (Pubitemid 46155644)
12. Corrigall WA, Coen KM (1989). Nicotine maintains robust self-administration in rats on a limited-access schedule. Psychopharmacology 99:473-478. (Pubitemid 19273101)
13. Donny EC, Caggiula AR, Mielke MM, Jacobs KS, Rose C, Sved AF (1998). Acquisition of nicotine self-administration in rats: the effects of dose, feeding schedule, and drug contingency. Psychopharmacology 136:83-90. (Pubitemid 28097524)
14. Donny EC, Chaudhri N, Caggiula AR, Evans-Martin FF, Booth S, Gharib M, et al. (2003). Operant responding for a visual stimulus in rats is enhanced by noncontingent nicotine: implications for nicotine self-administration and reinforcement. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 169:68-76. (Pubitemid 37088616)
15. Frenk H, Dar R (2004). Reward potentiation or behavioral activation? A comment on Donny et al. Psychopharmacology (Berl) 171:472-473.
16. Herrnstein RJ (1961). Relative and absolute strength of response as a function of frequency of reinforcement. J Exp Anal Behav 4:264-272.
17. Herrnstein RJ (1970). On the law of effect. J Exp Anal Behav 13:243-266.
18. Hursh SR (1980). Economic concepts for the analysis of behavior. J Exp Anal Behav 34:219-238.
19. Hursh SR (1993). Behavioral economics of drug self-administration: an introduction. Drug Alcohol Depend 33:165-172. (Pubitemid 23286635)
20. Hursh SR, Silberberg A (2008). Economic demand and essential value. Psychol Rev 115:186-198.
21. Hursh SR,Winger G (1995). Normalized demand for drugs and other reinforcers. J Exp Anal Behav 64:373-384.
22. Killeen PR, Hall SS (2001). The principal components of response strength. J Exp Anal Behav 75:111-134. (Pubitemid 33603490)
23. National Research Council (1996). Guide for the care and use of laboratory animals. Washington, DC: National Academy Press.
24. Nevin JA (1974). Response strength in multiple schedules. J Exp Anal Behav 21:389-408.
25. Nevin JA (1995). Behavioral economics and behavioral momentum. J Exp Anal Behav 64:385-395.
26. Palmatier MI, Evans-Martin FF, Hoffman A, Caggiula AR, Chaudhri N, Donny EC, et al. (2006). Dissociating the primary reinforcing and reinforcementenhancing effects of nicotine using a rat self-administration paradigm with concurrently available drug and environmental reinforcers. Psychopharmacology 184:391-400. (Pubitemid 43255855)
27. Palmatier MI, Matteson GL, Black JJ, Liu X, Caggiula AR, Craven L, et al. (2007). The reinforcement enhancing-effects of nicotine depend on the incentive value of non-drug reinforcers and increase with repeated injections. Psychopharmacology 89:52-59. (Pubitemid 46604860)
28. Raiff BR, Dallery J (2006). Effects of acute and chronic nicotine on responses maintained by primary and conditioned reinforcers in rats. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 14:296-305. (Pubitemid 44267473)
29. Raiff BR, Dallery J (2008). The generality of nicotine as a reinforcer enhancer in rats: effects on responding maintained by primary and conditioned reinforcers and resistance to extinction. Psychopharmacology 201:305-314.
30. Raiff BR, Dallery J (2009). Responding maintained by primary reinforcing visual stimuli is increased by nicotine administration in rats. Behav Process 82: 95-99.
31. Rose JE, Behm FM,Westman EC, Johnson M (2000). Dissociating nicotine and nonnicotine components of cigarette smoking. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 67:71-81.
32. Skinner BF (1938). The behavior of organisms. New York: Appleton Century Crofts.
33. United States Department of Health and Human Services (1988). Nicotine Addiction: a report of the surgeon general. Rockville, MD: US Department of Health and Human Services, Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health, Office on Smoking and Health.
34. Wilkinson JL, Bevins RA (2008). Intravenous nicotine conditions a place preference in rats using an unbiased design. Pharmacol Biochem Behav 88:256-264. (Pubitemid 350116252)
35. Winger G, Woods JH, Hursh SR (1996). Behavior maintained by alfentanil or nalbuphine in rhesus monkeys: fixed-ratio and time-out changes to establish demand curves and relative reinforcing effectiveness. Exp Clin Psychopharmacol 4:131-140. (Pubitemid 26180712)
36. World Health Organization (2004). Neuroscience of psychoactive substance use and dependence. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization.