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    Chronic food restriction in rats augments the central rewarding effect of cocaine and the δ1 opioid agonist, DPDPE, but not the δ2 agonist, deltorphin-II

    Rationale: Chronic food restriction augments the self-administration and locomotor stimulating effects of opiates, psychostimulants and NMDA antagonists. The extent to which these effects can be attributed to cha...

    Kenneth D. Carr, Gye-Young Kim, Soledad Cabeza de Vaca in Psychopharmacology (2000)

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    Rewarding and locomotor-activating effects of direct dopamine receptor agonists are augmented by chronic food restriction in rats

    Rationale: Previous studies indicate that chronic food restriction augments the rewarding and motor-activating effects of diverse drugs of abuse. The drugs that have so far proved susceptible to the augmenting e...

    Kenneth D. Carr, Gye-Young Kim, Soledad Cabeza de Vaca in Psychopharmacology (2001)

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    The melanocortin receptor agonist MTII augments the rewarding effect of amphetamine in ad-libitum-fed and food-restricted rats

    Rationale: Numerous forms of evidence support a functional association between drug-seeking and ingestive behavior. One example is the augmentation of rewarding and cellular-activating effects of abused drugs by ...

    Soledad Cabeza de Vaca, Gye-Young Kim, Kenneth D. Carr in Psychopharmacology (2002)