Sentences with phrase «administered cocaine»

Indeed, when the mutant mice were chronically administered cocaine, they actually spent more time in the side of a chamber where cocaine would be delivered.

To use reconsolidation to wipe out drug memories, Lu and his team first taught rats to self - administer cocaine and heroin, so that they learnt to associate a particular environment with a drug high.

In animal studies this sharply reduces cravings and halts addicted animals» tendency to self - administer cocaine and other habit - forming drugs.

In a 2014 paper, Lüscher's team demonstrated that mice taught to self - administer cocaine over a longer time period also responded.

When the mice are given access to a machine that lets them administer cocaine to themselves, the defeated mice take more of it.

Next, the rats were hooked up to a catheter and allowed to self - administer cocaine.

Amphetamine - induced dopamine release: Markedly blunted in cocaine dependence and predictive of the choice to self - administer cocaine

If the authors want to make conclusions regarding the role of NMDA receptors in vivo, then the authors need to administer cocaine and the drug in vivo.

Not exact matches

The experimental therapy, which involves administering a drug currently used in cancer therapy trials, treats cocaine addiction by inhibiting memories responsible for cravings.

Using an animal model, the research team replicated cocaine addiction by allowing rats to self - administer as much cocaine as they wanted (up to 40 doses) during a six - hour period.

However, a single self - administered infusion of cocaine at the end of abstinence, even after 60 days, fully reinstated tolerance to cocaine's effects in the animals that had binged.

Hirsh and his colleagues Rozi Andretic and Sarah Chaney administered aerosolized cocaine to fruit flies and watched for signs of a fly high, such as compulsive grooming, proboscis extension, and flying in circles.

Michael Nader, PhD, investigates drug addiction in self - administering nonhuman primates, focusing on cocaine abuse.

My awareness at age 70 is at fault to where I had 4 different helpers in this time frame, one of these undesirables had to have either dropped or administered the «cocaine».