Selective breeding for high alcohol preference increases the sensitivity of the posterior VTA to the reinforcing effects of nicotine

Addiction Biology

Volumn 19, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 800-811

  Hauser, Sheketha R ^a   Bracken, Amy L ^a   Deehan Jr , Gerald A ^a   Toalston, Jamie E ^a   Ding, Zheng Ming ^a   Truitt, William A ^a   Bell, Richard L ^a   McBride, William J ^a   Rodd, Zachary A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INDIANAPOLIS   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcohol preferring rats; intracranial self administration; nicotine self infusions; serotonin 3 receptors; ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

1 METHYL 3 INDAZOLECARBOXYLIC ACID N TROPANYLAMIDE; ALCOHOL; NICOTINE; SEROTONIN 3 RECEPTOR; ZACOPRIDE; BENZAMIDE DERIVATIVE; DRUG COMBINATION; FUSED HETEROCYCLIC RINGS; INDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; NICOTINIC AGENT; SEROTONIN 3 ANTAGONIST; TROPANE DERIVATIVE;

ALCOHOLISM; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; REINFORCEMENT; SELECTIVE BREEDING; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TASTE PREFERENCE; TOBACCO DEPENDENCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; DOSE RESPONSE; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECTS; INSTRUMENTAL CONDITIONING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ALCOHOL DRINKING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BENZAMIDES; BICYCLO COMPOUNDS, HETEROCYCLIC; BREEDING; CONDITIONING, OPERANT; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRUG COMBINATIONS; FEMALE; INDAZOLES; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC AGONISTS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, SEROTONIN, 5-HT3; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ADMINISTRATION; SEROTONIN 5-HT3 RECEPTOR ANTAGONISTS; TROPANES; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84906320643     PISSN: 13556215     EISSN: 13691600     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/adb.12048     Document Type: Article

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