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ArticlePharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior2018

Locomotor activity does not predict individual differences in morphine self-administration in rats.

Yayi Swain, Peter Muelken, Mark G LeSage, Jonathan C Gewirtz, Andrew C Harris

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Article in Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 14 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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14 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Incentive salience, not psychomotor sensitization or tolerance, drives escalation of cocaine self-administration in heterogeneous stock rats.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Yayi SwainMinneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Peter MuelkenMinneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Mark G LeSageMinneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Jonathan C GewirtzDepartment of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; Department of Neuroscience, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States.
Andrew C HarrisMinneapolis Medical Research Foundation, Minneapolis, MN, United States; Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States; Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States. Electronic address: harr0547@umn.edu.

Funding

Training in PharmacoNeuroImmune Substance Abuse ResearchT32DA007097 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA TWIN CITIES · PI MOLITOR, THOMAS WILLIAM · 1985 to 2021
$13.1M
A novel approach for identifying addiction vulnerability in animals.R21DA037728 · NIDA · UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA · PI GEWIRTZ, JONATHAN, HARRIS, ANDREW CHARLES · 2015 to 2016
$359k
NIDA NIH HHS R21 DA037728NIDA NIH HHS T32 DA007097
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Understanding factors contributing to individual differences in opioid addiction vulnerability is essential for developing more effective preventions and treatments. Sensation seeking has been implicated in addiction to several drugs of abuse, yet its relationship with individual differences in opioid addiction vulnerability has not been well established. The primary goal of this study was to evaluate the relationship between locomotor activity in a novel environment, a preclinical model of sensation-seeking, and individual differences in acquisition of i.v. morphine self-administration (SA) in rats. A secondary goal was to evaluate the relationship between activity and elasticity of demand (reinforcing efficacy) for morphine measured using a behavioral economic approach. Following an initial locomotor activity screen, animals were allowed to acquire morphine SA at a unit dose of 0.5 mg/kg/infusion in 4 hour/day sessions (Experiment 1) or 0.2 mg/kg/infusion in 2 hour/day sessions (Experiment 2) until infusion rates were stable. Unit price was subsequently manipulated via progressive reductions in unit dose (Experiment 1) or increases in response requirement per infusion (Experiment 2). Activity levels were not correlated with acquisition of morphine SA in either experiment. Morphine consumption was generally well described by an exponential demand function in both experiments (R

Indexed as

Analgesics, OpioidAnimalsBehavior, AddictiveDose-Response Relationship, DrugLocomotionMaleMorphinePredictive Value of TestsRatsRats, Sprague-DawleySelf AdministrationAnalgesics, OpioidMorphineIndividual differencesLocomotor activityMorphineOpioidSelf-administrationSensation-seeking

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PMID29409807
PMCPMC5821250

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