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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Aug 8.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Pharmacol. 2011 Jun;22(3):207–221. doi: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e328345ca1c

Table 1.

Description of the design of experiment 2

Subject Phase
Establish baseline Sensitization Recover baseline Antagonist evaluations (all doses in mg/kg)
1 Five sessions, saline dosing Ten sessions, consecutive doses of 0.3 mg/kg nicotine Five sessions, saline dosing 0.1 meca/0.3 nic Two sessions, saline 0.5 meca/0.3 nic Two sessions, saline 1.0 meca/0.3 nic Two sessions, saline 1.0 meca/saline Two sessions, saline Saline/0.3 nic Two sessions, saline
2 0.5 meca/0.3 nic 1.0 meca/0.3 nic 1.0 meca/saline Saline/0.3 nic 0.1 meca/0.3 nic
3 1.0 meca/0.3 nic 1.0 meca/saline Saline/0.3 nic 0.1 meca/0.3 nic 0.5 meca/0.3 nic
4 Saline/0.3 nic 0.1 meca/0.3 nic 0.5 meca/0.3 nic 1.0 meca/0.3 nic 1.0 meca/saline

Each drug-dose combination during the antagonist-evaluation phase was delivered on two occasions; therefore, the five drug combinations were repeated (not listed on the table).

meca, mecamylamine; nic, nicotine.