Evaluating Abuse Potential 


  

 

Both rodent and primate models are offered

Behavioral tests include:

  • IV self-administration (lever pressing/nose poking; rodent and primate)
  • Relapse/Remission in drug self-administration (rodent and primate)
  • Intra-cranial self-stimulation (rodent)
  • Drug-induced place preference (rodent)
  • Taste aversion (rodent)
Neurobiological assays include: 
  • Immunohistochemistry
  • In situ hybridization
  • Release of dopamine
  • c-fos expression

 

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