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Cocaine addiction is reproduced in cats on the basis of feeding motivation. Pure milk or milk with cocaine is used as reinforcement in the operant food-procuring behavior. Milk with cocaine induces specific changes in the food-procuring behavior. Cats are shown to differ in their individual sensitivity to cocaine.Per os intake of cocaine affects rather the processes of decision-making than the organization of motor acts.
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Translated fromByulleten' Eksperimental'noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 118, No 8, pp. 156–160, August, 1994
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Volkov, V.F., Meshcheryakov, A.F. & Fadeev, Y.A. Experimental model of the process of narcotics addiction in cats based on feeding motivation. Bull Exp Biol Med 118, 847–851 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02444446
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02444446