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Propensity for social interaction predicts nicotine-reinforced behaviors in outbred rats.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Feb 2014
Wang T, Han W, Wang B, Jiang Q, Solberg-Woods L C, Palmer A A, Chen H
Abstract excerpt
Social and genetic factors can influence smoking behavior. Using olfactogustatory stimuli as the sensory cue for intravenous nicotine self-administration (SA), we previously showed that social learning of nicotine contingent odor cue prevented rats from developing conditioned taste aversion and allowed them to instead establish stable nicotine SA. We hypothesized that genetic factors influenced socially acquired...
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