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ArticleLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.)2019

Cocaine, nicotine, and their conditioned contexts enhance consolidation of object memory in rats.

Michael Wolter, Ethan Huff, Talia Speigel, Boyer D Winters, Francesco Leri

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Article in Learning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed, 23 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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5 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Michael WolterDepartment of Psychology and Collaborative Program in Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
Ethan HuffDepartment of Psychology and Collaborative Program in Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
Talia SpeigelDepartment of Psychology and Collaborative Program in Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
Boyer D WintersDepartment of Psychology and Collaborative Program in Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
Francesco LeriDepartment of Psychology and Collaborative Program in Neuroscience, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada.
University of Guelph · CA

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To test the hypothesis that drugs of abuse and their conditioned stimuli (CSs) enhance memory consolidation, the effects of post-training exposure to cocaine and nicotine were compared to the effects of post-training exposure to contextual stimuli that were paired with the effects of these drugs. Using the object recognition (OR) task, it was first demonstrated that both 10 and 20 mg/kg cocaine, and 0.2 and 0.4 mg/kg nicotine, enhanced recognition memory when administered immediately after, but not 6 h after the sample phase. To establish the drug CSs, rats were confined for 2 h in a chamber (the CS+) after injections of 20 mg/kg cocaine, or 0.4 mg/kg nicotine, and in another chamber (the CS-) after injections of vehicle. This was repeated over 10 d (5 drug/CS+ and 5 vehicle/CS- pairings in total). At the end of this conditioning period, when tested in a drug-free state, rats displayed conditioned hyperactivity in the CS+ relative to the CS-. More important, immediate, but not delayed, post-sample exposure to the cocaine CS+, or nicotine CS+, enhanced OR memory. Therefore, this study reports for the first time that contextual stimuli paired with cocaine and nicotine, like the drugs themselves, have the ability to enhance memory consolidation.

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AnimalsCocaineConditioning, PsychologicalDopamine Uptake InhibitorsDose-Response Relationship, DrugMaleMemory ConsolidationNicotineNicotinic AgonistsNootropic AgentsRats, Sprague-DawleyRecognition, PsychologySubstance-Related DisordersCocaineDopamine Uptake InhibitorsNicotineNicotinic AgonistsNootropic Agents

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PMID30651377
PMCPMC6340119
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