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Assessment of Ultrasonic Vocalizations During Drug Self-administration in Rats
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July 22, 2010
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1College of Pharmacy, Division of Pharmacology and Toxicology,University of Texas at Austin, 2The Waggoner Center of Addiction and Alcohol Research,University of Texas at Austin, 3心理学科,University of Michigan, 4Institute for Neuroscience,University of Texas at Austin, 5心理学科,University of Texas at Austin
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Drug self-administration and ultrasonic vocalizations (USV) are used as behavioral assessments in animal research, but rarely in combination. The purpose of this article is to describe the advantages of recording USVs during drug self-administration procedures to assess affective responses to drug experience.
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Maier, E. Y., Ma, S. T., Ahrens, A., Schallert, T. J., Duvauchelle, C. L. Assessment of Ultrasonic Vocalizations During Drug Self-administration in Rats. J. Vis. Exp. (41), e2041, doi:10.3791/2041 (2010).
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