Cocaine Is Self-Administered into the Shell but Not the Core of the Nucleus Accumbens of Wistar Rats

Amphetamine and apomorphine responses in the rat following 6-OHDA lesions of the nucleus accumbens septi and corpus striatum

Peter H. Kelly, P. W. Seviour, Susan D. Iversen · Brain Research · 1975 · 1.7K citations

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Intravenous cocaine, morphine, and amphetamine preferentially increase extracellular dopamine in the "shell" as compared with the "core" of the rat nucleus accumbens.

Francesco E. Pontieri, Gianluigi Tanda, G. Di Chiara · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1995 · 868 citations

Medicine, Neuroscience, Pharmacology +17

On the role of ascending catecholaminergic systems in intravenous self-administration of cocaine

David C. S. Roberts, Michael E. Corcoran, Hans C. Fibiger · Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior · 1977 · 728 citations

Medicine, Neurobiology, Neuroscience +13

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

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