Do the female hormones and repeated administration of methamphetamine affect the spontaneous i.v. self-administration of the drug in rats?

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Authors	KUČEROVÁ Jana VRŠKOVÁ Dagmar ŠULCOVÁ Alexandra
Year of publication	2008
Type	Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source	Prague medical report : interdisciplinary biomedical journal of the First Faculty of Medicine, Charles University in Prague.
MU Faculty or unit	Faculty of Medicine
Citation
Field	Pharmacology and pharmaceutical chemistry
Keywords	behavioural sensitization; i.v. self-administration; estrogen; rat
Description	The model of i.v. self-administration of MET (or saline as control) combined with fourteen days (14 D) of intermittent pretreatment with MET (or saline) was used hypothesizing potential influence of behavioral sensitization to MET on the spontaneous intake in twenty-one i.v. self-administration everyday sessions (120 min.) in male and female ovariectomized rats with and without estrogen substitution.
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