Social defeat stress-induced sensitization and escalated cocaine self-administration: The role of ERK signaling in the rat ventral tegmental area

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 232, Issue 9, 2015, Pages 1555-1569

  Yap, Jasmine J ^a,d   Chartoff, Elena H ^b   Holly, Elizabeth N ^a   Potter, David N ^b   Carlezon, William A ^b   Miczek, Klaus A ^a,c  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine; ERK; Self administration; Sensitization; Stress; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; REINFORCEMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; HIERARCHY, SOCIAL; MALE; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASES; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ADMINISTRATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84932609597     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-014-3796-7     Document Type: Article

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