Selected Publications: Aaron Ettenberg

Walker, B.M., and Ettenberg, A. (2005) Intra-Ventral tegmental area heroin-induced place preferences are potentiated by peripherally-administered alprazolam. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 82:470-477.

Ben-Shahar, O., Moscarello, J.M., Jacob, B., Roarty, M.P. and Ettenberg, A. (2005) Prolonged daily exposure to IV cocaine results in tolerance to its stimulant effects. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 82:411-416.

Ben-Shahar, O., Moscarello, J.M., and Ettenberg, A. (2006) One hour, but not 6 hours, of daily access to self-administered cocaine results in elevated levels of the dopamine transporter. Brain Research 1095:148-153.

Knackstedt, L.A., Ben-Shahar O., and Ettenberg, A. (2006) Alcohol consumption is preferred to water in rats pretreated with intravenous cocaine. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 85:281-86.

Ettenberg, A. and Bernardi, R.E. (2006) Anxiolytic-like actions of buspirone in a runway model of intravenous cocaine self-administration. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 85:393-99.

Ben-Shahar, O., Keeley, P., Cook, M., Brake, W., Joyce, M., Nyffeler, M., Heston, R., and Ettenberg, A. (2007) Changes in levels of D1, D2 or NMDA receptors during withdrawal from brief or extended daily access to IV cocaine. Brain Research 1131:220-228.

Guzman, D. and Ettenberg, A. (2007) Runway self-administration of intracerebroventricular cocaine: evidence of mixed positive and negative drug actions. Behavioral Pharmacology 18:53-60.

Walker, B.M. and Ettenberg, A. (2007) Intraventricular ethanol-induced conditioned place preferences are prevented by fluphenazine infusions into the nucleus accumbens of rats. Behavioral Neuroscience 121:401-410.

Ettenberg, A. and Bernardi, R.E. (2007) Effects of buspirone on the immediate positive and delayed negative properties of intravenous cocaine as measured in the conditioned place preference test. Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior 87:171-178.

Cohen, A. and Ettenberg, A. (2007) Motivational effects of nicotine as measured in a runway model of drug self-administration. Behavioral Pharmacology 18:265-271.

Moscarello, J.M., Ben-Shahar, O.M. and Ettenberg, A. (2007) Dynamic interaction between medial prefrontal cortex and nucleus accumbens as a function of both motivational state and reinforcer magnitude: A c-Fos immunocytochemistry study. Brain Research 1169:69-76.

Ben-Shahar, O., Posthumus E.J., Waldroup S.A. and Ettenberg, A. (2008) Heightened drug-seeking motivation following extended daily access to self-administered cocaine. Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology & Biological Psychiatry 32:863-869.

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