title: Rapid delivery of cocaine facilitates acquisition of self-administration in rats: an effect masked by paired stimuli.
abstract: In general, faster infusions of cocaine are more likely to support behavior related to abuse than are slower infusions. However, some studies of cocaine self-administration in rats have failed to support this finding, possibly because the effect was masked by other factors. One such factor may be the pairing of a stimulus with the infusion, a procedure that is known to facilitate acquisition of drug self-administration. We compared fast and slow infusions by allowing groups of rats to acquire cocaine self-administration at a dose of 1mg/kg/infusion, delivered over different durations (1.8 or 100 s). Two groups were trained with either short or long infusions paired with a visual stimulus change (lights off), and two other groups were trained with short or long durations but with no stimulus change. Both groups trained with a paired stimulus acquired cocaine self-administration. With no stimulus change, the rats trained with the 1.8-s infusion acquired cocaine self-administration at a rate comparable to the two groups that were trained with a paired stimulus. However, most rats in the group trained with the 100-s infusion that was not accompanied by a stimulus change failed to acquire cocaine self-administration. The stimulus itself did not support responding. These results indicate that infusing a given dose of cocaine over a longer duration reduces its ability to support self-administration, but drug-paired stimuli can partially mask this effect by enhancing the effectiveness of slow infusions.
authors: Preclinical Pharmacology Section, Behavioral Neuroscience Branch, DHHS/NIH/NIDA Intramural Research Program, 251 Bayview Blvd., Suite 200, Baltimore, MD 21224, USA. cschindl@helix.nih.gov
authors: Charles W
authors: CW
authors: Schindler
authors: Elizabeth S
authors: ES
authors: Cogan
authors: Eric B
authors: EB
authors: Thorndike
authors: Leigh V
authors: LV
authors: Panlilio
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