Social interaction in an alternative context can be beneficial against drugs of abuse. Stress
is known to be a risk factor that can exacerbate the effects of addictive drugs. In this study …

Rationale Early social experiences are of major importance for behavioural development. In
particular, social play behaviour during post-weaning development is thought to facilitate the …

Food-deprivation increases the reinforcing efficacy of cocaine and other drugs within self-
administration experiments. In this study, the effects of food-deprivation on cocaine-induced …

Rationale The place conditioning procedure is increasingly used to study relapse in drug
seeking in mice. However, the retention course of drug-induced place preference has not …

Rationale: In previous comparisons with C57BL/6J mice, DBA/2J mice have been
characterized as” hyporesponsive” to cocaine's rewarding effect in the conditioned place …

The worsening of drug abuse by drug-associated social interaction is a well-studied
phenomenon. In contrast, the molecular mechanisms of the beneficial effect of social …

A meta-analysis was conducted on the data obtained from published articles that have used
the conditioned place preference (CPP) paradigm to assess the rewarding effects of …

Busse and Riley [Biol. Psychiatry 26 (2002) 1373] have recently reported that alcohol dose
dependently attenuated cocaine-induced place preferences. Although the mechanism for …

Rationale In previous studies, we have demonstrated that mice of the inbred strain
C57BL/6J (C57) are more susceptible to amphetamine-induced conditioned place …

Previous studies have demonstrated that rats showing a strong locomotor response to a
novel environment have a greater locomotor response to psychostimulant drugs and more …