Pregabalin reduces cocaine self-administration and relapse to cocaine seeking in the rat

Addiction Biology

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 644-653

  De Guglielmo, Giordano ^a   Cippitelli, Andrea ^a   Somaini, Lorenzo ^b   Gerra, Gilberto ^c   Li, Hongwu ^a   Stopponi, Serena ^a   Ubaldi, Massimo ^a   Kallupi, Marsida ^a   Ciccocioppo, Roberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMERINO   (Italy)

^b Addiction Treatment Centre   (Italy)

^c United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Austria   (Austria)

Author keywords

Cocaine; GABA; pregabalin; rat; relapse; self administration

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL; COCAINE; PREGABALIN; YOHIMBINE;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COCAINE SELF ADMINISTRATION; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RELAPSE; STRESS;

ADRENERGIC ALPHA-2 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTICONVULSANTS; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CUES; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HUMANS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECURRENCE; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ADMINISTRATION; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; YOHIMBINE;

EID: 84879463027     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1369-1600.2012.00468.x     Document Type: Article

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