Nadia Chaudhri

Detection of chromosomal aneuploidies and gene copy number changes in fine needle aspirates is a specific, sensitive, and objective genetic test for the diagnosis of breast cancer.

Environmental stimuli promote the acquisition of nicotine self-administration in rats.

Importance of nonpharmacological factors in nicotine self-administration.

Operant responding for a visual reinforcer in rats is enhanced by noncontingent nicotine: implications for nicotine self-administration and reinforcement.

Detection of genomic amplification of the human telomerase gene (TERC) in cytologic specimens as a genetic test for the diagnosis of cervical dysplasia.

Sex differences in the contribution of nicotine and nonpharmacological stimuli to nicotine self-administration in rats.

Genomic amplification of the human telomerase gene (TERC) in pap smears predicts the development of cervical cancer.

Complex interactions between nicotine and nonpharmacological stimuli reveal multiple roles for nicotine in reinforcement.

Dissociating the primary reinforcing and reinforcement-enhancing effects of nicotine using a rat self-administration paradigm with concurrently available drug and environmental reinforcers.

Self-administered and noncontingent nicotine enhance reinforced operant responding in rats: impact of nicotine dose and reinforcement schedule.

Operant responding for conditioned and unconditioned reinforcers in rats is differentially enhanced by the primary reinforcing and reinforcement-enhancing effects of nicotine.

Ethanol induces long-term facilitation of NR2B-NMDA receptor activity in the dorsal striatum: implications for alcohol drinking behavior.

Context-induced relapse of conditioned behavioral responding to ethanol cues in rats.

The role of nicotine in smoking: a dual-reinforcement model.

Reinstated ethanol-seeking in rats is modulated by environmental context and requires the nucleus accumbens core.

Ethanol seeking triggered by environmental context is attenuated by blocking dopamine D1 receptors in the nucleus accumbens core and shell in rats.

Separable roles of the nucleus accumbens core and shell in context- and cue-induced alcohol-seeking.

The Potent Effect of Environmental Context on Relapse to Alcohol-Seeking After Extinction.

Self-administered and yoked nicotine produce robust increases in blood pressure and changes in heart rate with modest effects of behavioral contingency in rats.

Vendor differences in alcohol consumption and the contribution of dopamine receptors to Pavlovian-conditioned alcohol-seeking in Long-Evans rats.

Blocking dopamine d1-like receptors attenuates context-induced renewal of pavlovian-conditioned alcohol-seeking in rats.

Pavlovian-conditioned alcohol-seeking behavior in rats is invigorated by the interaction between discrete and contextual alcohol cues: implications for relapse.