Pharmacological manipulation of glucocorticoid receptors differentially affects cocaine self-administration in environmentally enriched and isolated rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 283, Issue , 2015, Pages 196-202

  Hofford, Rebecca S ^a   Prendergast, Mark A ^a   Bardo, Michael T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KENTUCKY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine self administration; Corticosterone; Environmental enrichment; Glucocorticoid receptor; RU486; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MIFEPRISTONE; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR; HORMONE ANTAGONIST;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CANNULA; CATHETER; CELL ISOLATION; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ACTIVITY; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG STABILITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; METABOLISM; RANDOMIZATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; MALE; MIFEPRISTONE; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 84922461805     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2015.01.049     Document Type: Article

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