Cocaine reinforcement and extracellular dopamine overflow in rat nucleus accumbens: an in vivo microdialysis study

Extinction and recovery of cocaine self-administration following 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the nucleus accumbens

David C. S. Roberts, George F. Koob, P. Klonoff et al. · Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · 1980 · 726 citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +16

Experimental Morphine Addiction: Method for Automatic Intravenous Injections in Unrestrained Rats

James R. Weeks · Science · 1962 · 657 citations

Medicine, Neurology, Psychiatry +7

Destruction of dopamine in the nucleus accumbens selectively attenuates cocaine but not heroin self-administration in rats

Hugh O. Pettit, Aaron Ettenberg, Floyd E. Bloom et al. · Psychopharmacology · 1984 · 653 citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +12

<i>In Vivo</i> Measurement of Dopamine and Its Metabolites by Intracerebral Dialysis: Changes After <i>d</i>‐Amphetamine

Tyra Zetterström, Trevor Sharp, C.A. Marsden et al. · Journal of Neurochemistry · 1983 · 615 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +12

Blockade of cocaine reinforcement in rats with the dopamine receptor blocker pimozide, but not with the noradrenergic blockers phentolamine or phenoxybenzamine.

Harriet de Wit, Roy A. Wise · Canadian Journal of Psychology/Revue Canadienne de Psychologie · 1977 · 494 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +16