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BEHAVIORAL NEUROSCIENCE
Volume 116, Issue 2, Pages 321-333Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.116.2.321
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- NIDA NIH HHS [DA 09815, DA 12473] Funding Source: Medline
- NIDCD NIH HHS [DC 02016] Funding Source: Medline
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In Experiment 1, water-deprived Sprague-Dawley rats were given 5 min access to saccharin. This tube retracted, an empty tube advanced, and the rats were given 1 hr to lick the empty tube on a fixed-ratio 10 lick contingency to self-administer saline or cocaine (0.33 mg/infusion) via an intravenous catheter. The results showed that rats avoided intake of saccharin after saccharin-cocaine pairings and that greater avoidance of the gustatory cue was associated with greater cocaine self-administration. In Experiment 2, a similar dose-response function was obtained with either the empty tube or a lever as the operant. In Experiment 3, avoidance of the saccharin cue and the propensity to self-administer cocaine were maintained after at least 1 month of abstinence. As such, this paradigm may be useful as a model of cue-induced craving and drug induced devaluation of natural rewards.
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