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Place preference test in rodents
Sylvain Roux1, Christelle Froger, Roger D Porsolt
1Porsolt and Partners Pharmacology, Boulogne Billancourt, France.
Current Protocols in Neuroscience
|April 23, 2008
Abstract:
Conditioned place preference is a behavioral model currently used to measure the rewarding properties induced by the administration of a drug. In this paradigm, the rewarding properties of a compound are associated with the particular characteristics of a given environment. Due to the recent availability of multiple lines of genetically modified mice, this unit includes procedures for testing place preference in both rats and mice.
