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. 2021 May 14;15:660759. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2021.660759

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Experiment 2: Fentanyl self-administration training in opioid dependent versus non-dependent rats. (A) Experimental timeline: We trained rats to self-administer fentanyl for 5 days before inducing opioid dependence. Rats resumed self-administration for 10 more days while dependence was maintained. On forced abstinence Day 5 and Day 30, we measured lever responding under extinction conditions. (B) Change in body weight across days for opioid-dependent and non-dependent rats after start of dependence phase. (C) Number of wet-dog shakes for opioid-dependent and non-dependent rats. (D) Fentanyl infusions + cues earned across the 15 3 h self-administration sessions, sessions 1–5: before dependence and no infusion maximum criteria, 6–15: during dependence with infusion maximum criteria. (E) Latency to reach infusion maximum criteria in minutes. (F) Active/Inactive Lever pressing for dependent and non-dependent rats during training. (G) Active Lever press rate. *p < 0.05, main effect of dependence, ***p < 0.001, different from non-dependent. SA, Self-administration; ND, non-dependent; D, dependent. Data are mean ± SEM.