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dc.creatorMiller, Dennis K
dc.date.accessioned2012-06-07T22:49:47Z
dc.date.available2012-06-07T22:49:47Z
dc.date.created1997
dc.date.issued1997
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/ETD-TAMU-1997-THESIS-M547
dc.descriptionDue to the character of the original source materials and the nature of batch digitization, quality control issues may be present in this document. Please report any quality issues you encounter to digital@library.tamu.edu, referencing the URI of the item.en
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references: p. 48-58.en
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dc.description.abstractChronic exposure to the toxicant cadmium has been shown to produce an attenuation in behavior properties of drugs of abuse. The experiments presented examined the effects of cadmium on the conditioned reinforcing properties of morphine and fentanyl using the conditioned place preference paradigm (CPP). In CPP a drug is repeatedly paired with a neutral stimulus. When given free-choice access, the animal spends more time in the drugpaired rather than a non-drug-paired environment. In these experiments adult male rats were exposed ad libitum for 40 days to 100 ppm cadmium chloride through their diet, or an identical diet with no added cadmium. CPP was conducted in a 2-chamber apparatus in which all drugs were paired with the least-preferred side as determined on a pre-test. In Experiment 1. control and cadmium-exposed rats received 0, 0.6, 1.25, 2.5. or 5 mg/kg morphine sulfate (ip) for 4 days, and vehicle only for 4 days. Control animals showed a preference for the drug-paired side at 1.25, 2.5. and 5 mg/kg while the cadmium-exposed rats showed a preference at 5 mg/kg only. In Experiment 2. rats were implanted with cannulae into the lateral ventricles and or 5 morphine sulfate was administered intracerebroventricularly (icv) to determine whether the results seen in Experiment 1 were due to an antagonsim by cadmium in the periphery rather than the CNS. An attenuation by cadmium again was observed, as control animals showed a place preference at 2 and 5 @g and cadmium-exposed animals showed preference at 5 jig only. In Experiment 3, increasing doses of the selective g- opioidreceptor agonist fentanyl (0, 0.0004, 0.004, and 0.04 mg/kg)were systemically administered (sc) and rats tested for CPP. While cadmium animals showed place preference only at 0.04 mg/kg, control animals showed preference at 0.0004, 0.004, and 0.04 mg/kg. These results point to an attenuation rather than a suppression of the conditioned reinforcing properties of the opiates.en
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dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherTexas A&M University
dc.rightsThis thesis was part of a retrospective digitization project authorized by the Texas A&M University Libraries in 2008. Copyright remains vested with the author(s). It is the user's responsibility to secure permission from the copyright holder(s) for re-use of the work beyond the provision of Fair Use.en
dc.subjectpsychology.en
dc.subjectMajor psychology.en
dc.titleEffects of chronic cadmium exposure on the conditioned reinforcing properties of morphine and fentanyl in ratsen
dc.typeThesisen
thesis.degree.disciplinepsychologyen
thesis.degree.nameM.S.en
thesis.degree.levelMastersen
dc.type.genrethesisen
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