Nicotine maintains robust self-administration in rats on a limited-access schedule

Heroin and cocaine intravenous self-administration in rats: Mediation by separate neural systems

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Persistent Behavior at High Rates Maintained by Intravenous Self-Administration of Nicotine

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Evidence that mesolimbic dopaminergic activation underlies the locomotor stimulant action of nicotine in rats.

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Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +15

Prediction of abuse liability of drugs using IV self-administration by rats

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