LC/MS/MS evaluation of cocaine and its metabolites in different brain areas, peripheral organs and plasma in cocaine self-administering rats.
Journal Title: Pharmacological Reports - Year 2012, Vol 64, Issue 6
Abstract
We employed a cocaine intravenous self-administration model based on positive reinforcement of animals' instrumental reactions (i.e., lever pressing) rewarded by a dose of the drug. We also carried out simultaneous characterization of the pharmacokinetics of cocaine and its metabolites in rats during withdrawal; in this part of the experiments, we investigated the cocaine (2 mg/kg, iv)-induced changes in the distribution, rate constant, clearance and t₁/₂ of the parent drug and its metabolites in different structures of the brain and in peripheral tissues.
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Beata Bystrowska, Przemysław Adamczyk, Andrzej Moniczewski, Magdalena Zaniewska, Kjell Fuxe, Małgorzata Filip
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