Social stress and CRF-dopamine interactions in the VTA: Role in long-term escalation of cocaine self-administration

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 19, 2014, Pages 6659-6667

  Boyson, Christopher O ^a   Holly, Elizabeth N ^a   Shimamoto, Akiko ^a   Albrechet Souza, Lucas ^a   Weiner, Lindsay A ^a   DeBold, Joseph F ^a   Miczek, Klaus A ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRESSIN; COCAINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR ANTAGONIST; CP 376395; DOPAMINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; GROOMING; HUMAN; IMMOBILITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SENSITIZATION; SOCIAL STRESS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AMINOPYRIDINES; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE ABUSE, INTRAVENOUS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84899838919     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3942-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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