The Effects of Maternal Separation on Adult Methamphetamine Self-Administration Extinction, Reinstatement, and MeCP2 Immunoreactivity in the Nucleus Accumbens

abstract: The maternal separation (MS) paradigm is an animal model of early life stress. Animals subjected to MS during the first two weeks of life display altered behavioral and neuroendocrinological stress responses as adults. MS also produces altered responsiveness to and self-administration (SA)...

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Other Authors: Lewis, Candace (Author)
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: 2013
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.17982