Assessing addiction vulnerability with different rat strains and place preference procedures: the role of the cocaine and amphetamine-regulated transcript

Behavioural Pharmacology

Volumn 24, Issue 5-6, 2013, Pages 471-477

  Salas, Elisabet ^a,b   Bocos, Carlos ^b   Castillo, Carmen Del ^b   Pérez García, Carmen ^b   Morales, Lidia ^b   Alguacil, Luis F ^a,b  

^a General University Hospital of Ciudad Real   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSIDAD SAN PABLO CEU   (Spain)

Author keywords

addiction vulnerability; cocaine; cocaine and amphetamine regulated transcript; morphine; nucleus accumbens; rat

Indexed keywords

COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; MESSENGER RNA; MORPHINE;

ADDICTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENE EXPRESSION; LEWIS RAT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; VULNERABLE POPULATION;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MORPHINE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84881535795     PISSN: 09558810     EISSN: 14735849     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e328364160a     Document Type: Article

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