Issues surrounding the assessment of the genetic determinants of drugs as reinforcing stimuli.

doi:10.1300/J069v10n01_11

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Issues surrounding the assessment of the genetic determinants of drugs as reinforcing stimuli.

Journal of addictive diseases - 1 Jan 1991

Carney J M, Cheng M S, Wu C, Seale T W

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A wide variety of drugs used in medicine and on a non-prescription basis have abuse liability. However, not all psychoactive drugs have demonstrable reinforcing properties either in animal models or in humans. In order to predict the abuse liability of a compound or to understand determinants of...

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Animals
Genotype
Mice
Mice, Inbred Strains
Models, Genetic
Psychotropic Drugs
Substance-Related Disorders

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