Episodic social stress-escalated cocaine self-administration: Role of phasic and tonic corticotropin releasing factor in the anterior and posterior ventral tegmental area

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 14, 2016, Pages 4093-4105

  Holly, Elizabeth N ^a,b   Boyson, Christopher O ^a   Montagud Romero, Sandra ^c   Stein, Dirson J ^d   Gobrogge, Kyle L ^a   DeBold, Joseph F ^a   Miczek, Klaus A ^a,e  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^d FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cocaine seeking; Cocaine self administration; Corticotropin releasing factor; Social defeat; Stress; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

ASTRESSIN 2B; COCAINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR ANTAGONIST; CP 376395; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTERIOR VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR ASSESSMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SEEKING BEHAVIOR; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; POSTERIOR VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA; RAT; REWARD; SOCIAL STRESS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; ANIMAL; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; DRUG SELF ADMINISTRATION; LONG EVANS RAT; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME;

ANIMALS; COCAINE-RELATED DISORDERS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DRUG-SEEKING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; SELF ADMINISTRATION; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE WITHDRAWAL SYNDROME; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84964000619     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2232-15.2016     Document Type: Article

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