Article
Cocaine self-administration punished by i.v. histamine in rat models of high and low drug abuse vulnerability: effects of saccharin preference, impulsivity, and sex.
Physiology & behavior - 2 Oct 2013
Holtz Nathan A, Anker Justin J, Regier Paul S, Claxton Alex, Carroll Marilyn E
Abstract excerpt
A key feature of substance use disorders is continued drug consumption despite aversive consequences. This has been modeled in the animal laboratory by pairing drug self-administration with electric shock, thereby punishing drug intake (Deroche-Gamonet et al. 2004). In the present experiments, we examined the effects of punishment on i.v. cocaine self-administration by adding histamine to the cocaine solution...
Topics
- Animals
- Behavior, Animal
- Choice Behavior
- Cocaine
- Cocaine-Related Disorders
- Female
- Histamine
- Impulsive Behavior
- Male
- Phenotype
- Punishment
