title: Satiety threshold during maintained cocaine self-administration in outbred mice.
abstract: Male Swiss Webster mice maintained cocaine self-administration in a regular and dose-dependent manner. These characteristics made it possible to apply the satiety threshold model of drug self-administration developed recently for cocaine self-administration in rats. Non-linear regression analysis revealed that cocaine satiety threshold was 1.3 +/- 0.6 mg/kg and the functional half-life of the cocaine was 8.1 +/- 2.2 min. Whether the self-administration of cocaine was maintained by lever presses or nose pokes did not influence the inter-injection intervals. The results are consistent with the pharmacological model of maintained cocaine self-administration. The ability to determine addiction-relevant phenotypes (the satiety threshold and functional half-life of cocaine) in inbred strains of mice may help to identify the genetic determinants of cocaine self-administration behavior.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, OH 45267, USA.
authors.forename: V L
authors.initials: VL
authors.lastname: Tsibulsky
authors.forename: A B
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Norman
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003042:Cocaine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D019970:Cocaine-Related Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D018765:Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D017711:Nonlinear Dynamics; D012528:Satiety Response / Q000502:physiology*; D012646:Self Administration
chemical_list: D018765:Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors; D003042:Cocaine