Serotonergic modulation of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA)-elicited reduction of response rate but not rewarding threshold in accumbal self-stimulation
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by a grant from the Australian Research Council to Dale Atrens, a University of Sydney Research Grant to Iain McGregor and a University of Sydney Postgraduate Research Award to Hui Qiang Lin. The authors thank the National Institute on Drug Abuse of the United States for providing the MDMA used in this study.
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