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Sex and heredity are determinants of drug intake in a novel model of rat oral oxycodone self-administration.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Nov 2021
Sharp Burt M, Fan Xinyu, Redei Eva E, Mulligan Megan K, Chen Hao
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The steady rise in prescription opioids such as oxycodone has led to a virulent epidemic of widespread abuse and deaths in the United States; approximately 80% of affected individuals initiate the habitual use of oxycodone by using prescription oral oxycodone. Given the importance of drug pharmacokinetics in determining abuse potential, we designed an oral operant oxycodone self-administration (SA) procedure in...
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