Lesions of cholinergic pedunculopontine tegmental nucleus neurons fail to affect cocaine or heroin self-administration or conditioned place preference in rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Steidl, Stephan ^a,b   Wang, Huiling ^a   Wise, Roy A ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

^b LOYOLA UNIVERSITY CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DIAMORPHINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHOLINERGIC NERVE CELL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GLUTAMATERGIC NERVE CELL; HEROIN DEPENDENCE; MALE; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL LESION; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; PLACE PREFERENCE; RAT; REWARD;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ANIMALS; CELL DEATH; CHOLINERGIC AGENTS; CHOLINERGIC NEURONS; COCAINE; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DIPHTHERIA TOXIN; DOPAMINE; HEROIN; MALE; NEUROTOXINS; PEDUNCULOPONTINE TEGMENTAL NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOMBINANT FUSION PROTEINS; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SUBSTANCE-RELATED DISORDERS; UROTENSINS;

EID: 84897374630     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084412     Document Type: Article

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