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List of works by Laura Lopez-Cruz

Acetate as an active metabolite of ethanol: studies of locomotion, loss of righting reflex, and anxiety in rodents.

scientific article published on 10 July 2013

Activational and effort-related aspects of motivation: neural mechanisms and implications for psychopathology.

scientific article published on May 2016

Adenosine A2A receptor antagonism and genetic deletion attenuate the effects of dopamine D2 antagonism on effort-based decision making in mice.

scientific article published on 10 January 2012

Adenosine A2A receptor deletion affects social behaviors and anxiety in mice: Involvement of anterior cingulate cortex and amygdala.

scientific article published on 19 December 2016

Bupropion increases selection of high effort activity in rats tested on a progressive ratio/chow feeding choice procedure: implications for treatment of effort-related motivational symptoms

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Caffeine Modulates Food Intake Depending on the Context That Gives Access to Food: Comparison With Dopamine Depletion

scientific article published on 06 September 2018

Caffeine and Selective Adenosine Receptor Antagonists as New Therapeutic Tools for the Motivational Symptoms of Depression.

scientific article published in June 2018

Caffeine modulates voluntary alcohol intake in mice depending on the access conditions: Involvement of adenosine receptors and the role of individual differences

scientific article published on 06 September 2019

Choosing voluntary exercise over sucrose consumption depends upon dopamine transmission: effects of haloperidol in wild type and adenosine A₂AKO mice.

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Differences between the nonselective adenosine receptor antagonists caffeine and theophylline in motor and mood effects: studies using medium to high doses in animal models.

scientific article published on 22 May 2014

Dopamine D2-like receptor stimulation blocks negative feedback in visual and spatial reversal learning in the rat: behavioural and computational evidence

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Dopamine depletion shifts behavior from activity based reinforcers to more sedentary ones and adenosine receptor antagonism reverses that shift: Relation to ventral striatum DARPP32 phosphorylation patterns.

scientific article published on 2 February 2018

Dopaminergic modulation of effort-related choice behavior as assessed by a progressive ratio chow feeding choice task: pharmacological studies and the role of individual differences

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Drug-free and context-dependent locomotor hyperactivity in DBA/2 J mice previously treated with repeated cocaine: Relationship with behavioral sensitization and role of noradrenergic receptors

scientific article published on 17 December 2018

Effects of lisdexamfetamine and s-citalopram, alone and in combination, on effort-related choice behavior in the rat.

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Effort-related motivational effects of the VMAT-2 inhibitor tetrabenazine: implications for animal models of the motivational symptoms of depression.

scientific article published on December 2013

Ethanol and Caffeine Effects on Social Interaction and Recognition in Mice: Involvement of Adenosine A2A and A1 Receptors

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Evaluation of the effort-related motivational effects of the novel dopamine uptake inhibitor PRX-14040.

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

Individual differences in the energizing effects of caffeine on effort-based decision-making tests in rats.

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Mesolimbic Dopamine and the Regulation of Motivated Behavior

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Selection of sucrose concentration depends on the effort required to obtain it: studies using tetrabenazine, D1, D2, and D3 receptor antagonists

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The Impact of Caffeine on the Behavioral Effects of Ethanol Related to Abuse and Addiction: A Review of Animal Studies

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The pharmacology of effort-related choice behavior: Dopamine, depression, and individual differences.

scientific article published on 17 February 2016

The vesicular monoamine transporter (VMAT-2) inhibitor tetrabenazine induces tremulous jaw movements in rodents: implications for pharmacological models of parkinsonian tremor.

scientific article published on 15 July 2013

Translational tests involving non-reward: methodological considerations

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c-Fos immunoreactivity in prefrontal, basal ganglia and limbic areas of the rat brain after central and peripheral administration of ethanol and its metabolite acetaldehyde.

scientific article published on 24 May 2013

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