Article
Genetic determinants of susceptibility to the rewarding and other behavioral actions of cocaine.
Journal of addictive diseases - 1 Jan 1991
Seale T W, Carney J M
Abstract excerpt
The role of genotype as a determinant of biologically based inter-individual differences in vulnerability to substance abuse has received little systematic investigation except in the case of alcohol. This report describes the use of an animal model, the inbred mouse, to identify and to characterize variants with inherently altered susceptibilities to the rewarding and other behavioral actions of cocaine. Among a...
Topics
- Animals
- Appetitive Behavior
- Arousal
- Brain
- Cocaine
- Genotype
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred Strains
- Models, Genetic
- Polymorphism, Genetic
- Reward
- Social Environment
