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“Altogether, these findings demonstrate that L‐DOPA efficaciously reduces the reinforcing and motivational effects of cocaine likely potentiating dopamine transmission in the mPFC.”
“We found that L‐DOPA reduced cocaine self‐administration under FR‐1 schedule of reinforcement and decreased the breaking points and the amount of cocaine self‐administered under the progressive ratio schedule of reinforcement.”
European journal of pharmacology • 2006 | View Paper
“These newly discovered “enterochromaffin-like” cells, which normally store neither catecholamines nor 5-hydroxytryptamine, can take up L-DOPA (or 5-hydroxytruptophan) by an active mechanism that can be blocked with cocaine.”