Naltrexone-induced aversions: assessment by place conditioning, taste reactivity, and taste avoidance paradigms

Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1992 Mar;41(3):559-65. doi: 10.1016/0091-3057(92)90373-n.

Abstract

The reinforcing/aversive properties of various doses of naltrexone (0.01, 1, and 10 mg/kg) were assessed in three experiments that employed place conditioning, taste reactivity, and taste avoidance paradigms. Naltrexone produced a place aversion and a taste aversion, but did not produce aversive taste reactivity responses, even at the highest dose (10 mg/kg) tested. This suggests that drugs that produce a place aversion do not necessarily produce a conditional dislike for a flavored solution with which they are paired.

Publication types

  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Aversive Therapy
  • Avoidance Learning / drug effects*
  • Avoidance Learning / physiology
  • Conditioning, Psychological / drug effects*
  • Conditioning, Psychological / physiology
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Male
  • Naltrexone / administration & dosage
  • Naltrexone / pharmacology*
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Taste / physiology*

Substances

  • Naltrexone

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