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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 25.
Published in final edited form as: Am J Psychiatry. 2009 Sep 1;166(10):1170–1177. doi: 10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.08121801

TABLE 4. Previously Reported Levels of Baseline Dopamine in Cocaine-Treated Rodents.

Study Brain Tissue Treatment Administration
Wilson et al. (13) Striatum Average use: 9.25 mg/kg in divided doses for at least 28 days (self-administered)
Akimoto et al. (14) Striatum 20 mg/kg per day for 14 days (investigator-administered)
Segal and Kuczenski (15) Caudate, nucleus accumbens 10 mg/kg per day for 4 days (investigator-administered)
Kalivas and Duffy (16) Striatum 15 mg/kg per day for 4 days (investigator-administered)
Kalivas and Duffy (17) Nucleus accumbens 15 or 30 mg/kg per day for 7 days (investigator-administered)
Parsons et al. (18) Nucleus accumbens 20 mg/kg per day for 10 days (investigator-administered)
Chefer and Shippenberg (19) Nucleus accumbens 20 mg/kg per day for 5 days (investigator-administered)
Zapata et al. (20) Nucleus accumbens 0.5 mg/kg infusion for 90 minutes per 5 days (yoked- and self-administered)
Zhang et al. (21) Nucleus accumbens, caudate 10 mg/kg per day for 7 days (investigator-administered)
Wilson et al. (22) Nucleus accumbens Average use: 90 mg/kg in divided doses for at least 21 days (self-administered)
Pettit et al. (23) Nucleus accumbens 10 mg/kg per day for 5 days; 20 mg/kg per day for 25 days (investigator-administered)
Mateo et al. (24) Nucleus accumbens Following a fixed ratio schedule for 5 days; four discrete trials; 24 hours/day for 10 days (self-administered; average cocaine use: 750–800 mg/kg in 10 days)
Gerrits et al. (25) Nucleus accumbens 30 μg infusion per 3 hours or maximum of 60 infusions per 5 days (self-administered)
Maisonnueve et al. (26) Striatum (ventral and dorsal) 3 × 10–15 mg/kg for 13 days (investigator-administered)
Weiss et al. (27) Nucleus accumbens Unlimited access intravenous doses (self-administered)
Rossetti et al. (28) Ventral striatum 15 mg/kg per 2 days for 15 days (investigator-administered)
Robertson et al. (29) Ventral striatum 30 mg/kg per day for 18 days (investigator-administered)