Social dominance in rats: Effects on cocaine self-administration, novelty reactivity and dopamine receptor binding and content in the striatum

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 233, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 579-589

  Jupp, Bianca ^a   Murray, Jennifer E ^a   Jordan, Emily R ^a   Xia, Jing ^a   Fluharty, Meg ^a   Shrestha, Saurav ^b   Robbins, Trevor W ^a   Dalley, Jeffrey W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; High responder; Impulsivity; Psychostimulants; Resource competition; Social status

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 3 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; COCAINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITOR; PROTEIN BINDING;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; COMPETITION; CORPUS STRIATUM; DORSAL STRIATUM; IMPULSIVENESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BINDING; REINFORCEMENT; SELF ADMINISTRATION TEST; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; ADDICTION; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ADDICTIVE; COCAINE; CORPUS STRIATUM; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; PROTEIN BINDING; RATS; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D3; REINFORCEMENT (PSYCHOLOGY); SELF ADMINISTRATION; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

EID: 84957108984     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-015-4122-8     Document Type: Article

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