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A Rat Is Trained to Self-Administer Cocaine

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A rat is trained to self-administer cocaine. Saline is substituted for the cocaine solution, which results in extinction of responding. In this situation, the capacity for a "free" shot of cocaine to reinstate responding for cocaine can be blocked by


A) injection of AMPA into the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.
B) injection of a dopamine agonist into the nucleus accumbens.
C) glutamate induced activation of the ventral tegmental area.
D) injection of a dopamine agonist into the prefrontal cortex.
E) injection of glycine into the ventromedial prefrontal cortex.

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