17β-Estradiol is necessary for extinction of cocaine seeking in female rats

Learning and Memory

Volumn 20, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 300-306

  Twining, Robert C ^a   Tuscher, Jennifer J ^a   Doncheck, Elizabeth M ^a   Frick, Karyn M ^a   Mueller, Devin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MILWAUKEE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; ESTROGEN ACTIVITY; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PLACE PREFERENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; ESTRADIOL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEMALE; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

EID: 84879316688     PISSN: 10720502     EISSN: 15495485     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1101/lm.030304.113     Document Type: Article

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