Establishing oral preference for quinine, phencyclidine and caffeine solutions in rats.

abstract：:This study compared fixed-ratio (FR) and fixed-interval (FI) schedules to investigate the discriminative stimulus properties of μ-opioid and/or κ-opioid receptor agonists. Pigeons were trained to discriminate among morphine (μ agonist), U50488 (κ agonist), the combination, and saline under FR 20-s or FI-300-s schedule...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Wessinger WD,Li M,McMillan DE

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolation rearing has been used for inducing schizophrenia-like symptoms in rats. Human schizophrenics have deficits in prefrontal-dysfunction-related cognitive/behavioral flexibility. Rats with lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex perform poorly in reversal learning. It is uncertain whether isolation rearing, howe...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Li N,Wu X,Li L

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adult male Wistar rats were bilaterally implanted with indwelling cannulae in the agranular insular cortex of the prefrontal cortex. After recovery, animals were trained in a step-down inhibitory avoidance task (3.0-s, 0.4-mA footshock) and received, immediately after training, a 0.5-microl infusion of the serotonergi...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Mello e Souza T,Rodrigues C,Souza MM,Vinadé E,Coitinho A,Choi H,Izquierdo I

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although the role of genetic factors in the response to drugs of abuse has been emphasized, no earlier studies have applied selective breeding to intravenous drug self-administration. Here we report the effects of six generations of selective breeding for rat lines with low or high levels of intravenous drug self-admi...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： He S,Yang Y,Mathur D,Grasing K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In spite of the current availability of several pharmacological therapies for the treatment of Parkinson's disease, side effects are invariably manifested during long-term treatment. Dyskinesia, wearing-off and on-off are among the most disabling side effects produced by the dopamine precursor L-dihydroxyphenylalanine...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Carta AR,Pinna A,Morelli M

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fragile X syndrome is an X-linked form of mental retardation including, among others, symptoms such as stereotypic behaviour, hyperactivity, hyperarousal, and cognitive deficits. We hypothesized that hyperactivity and/or compromised attentional, cognitive functions may lead to impaired performance in cognitive tasks i...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Ventura R,Pascucci T,Catania MV,Musumeci SA,Puglisi-Allegra S

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We recently developed a procedure to study fear incubation, in which rats given 100 tone-shock pairings over 10 days show low fear 2 days after conditioned fear training and high fear after 30 days. Notably, fear 2 days after 10 sessions of fear conditioning is lower than fear seen 2 days after a single session of fea...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Pickens CL,Theberge FR

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benzodiazepines are generally reported to be active in tests based on punished responding and in procedures involving exploratory behaviour, but the effects of 5-HT drugs thus far reported are inconsistent. The effects of the two 5-HT(1A) agonists 8-OH-DPAT and buspirone were studied in a passive avoidance test and in...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Klint T

更新日期：1991-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous exposure to a variety of drugs of abuse has been shown to cause long-term impairments in reversal learning and reinforcer devaluation tasks. However, there is mixed evidence in the literature for a long-term effect of ketamine exposure on reversal learning and the long-term effect of ketamine exposure on deva...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Pickens CL,Aurand L,Hunt J,Fisher H

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While previous research has sought to validate the chick separation stress paradigm as an anxiolytic screening assay, it is unknown whether the paradigm better models a nonspecific anxiety-like state or something similar to panic disorder or generalized anxiety disorder. To characterize the anxiety model pharmacologic...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Warnick JE,Wicks RT,Sufka KJ

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Male Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) treated with anabolic/androgenic steroids (AAS) during adolescence (P27-P56) display highly escalated and mature forms of offensive aggression correlated with increased γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) afferent development as well as decreased GABAA receptors in the lateroanterior...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Morrison TR,Ricci LA,Melloni RH Jr

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present experiment was conducted to determine whether the modification of the effects of morphine by food deprivation would occur under conditions of strong stimulus control. Four pigeons pecked response keys under a multiple fixed-interval (FI) 5-min and clocked fixed-interval (CFI) 5-min schedule of food present...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Odum AL,Schaal DW

更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both opioids and cannabinoids have inhibitory effects at micromolar doses, which are mediated by activated receptors coupling to Gi/o-proteins. Surprisingly, the analgesic effects of opioids are enhanced by ultra-low doses (nanomolar to picomolar) of the opioid antagonist, naltrexone. As opioid and cannabinoid systems...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Paquette J,Olmstead MC

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cannabis is the most popular illicit drug used by adolescents. Yet, there are only a few studies that have examined the effects of cannabis use on learning and memory during this sensitive and important neurodevelopmental stage. Male adolescent Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, 6 mg...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Steel RW,Miller JH,Sim DA,Day DJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was twofold: (1) to study the predictive validity of the drug-naive, bilaterally MPTP-treated monkey as an animal model of Parkinson's disease (PD), and (2) to investigate the therapeutic and undesired effects of the D1 agonist SKF 82958 as compared to L-DOPA treatment, in drug-naive and L-DOPA p...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Andringa G,Lubbers L,Drukarch B,Stoof JC,Cools AR

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last 15 years, genetically modified mice have added important data to our knowledge on psychiatric diseases including anxiety. This has produced many behavioural publications, partially by non-behaviourists, in which differences between mutants and normal wild-type animals were described. The popularity of th...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Bouwknecht JA,Paylor R

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large body of data suggests that potassium channels may play an important role in learning and memory. Previous in-vitro research in a number of species including Hermissenda and the rabbit suggests that a 4-aminopyridine-sensitive transient potassium channel may be involved in classical conditioning. We investigate...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Wang D,Darwish DS,Schreurs BG

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-related stimuli seem to contribute to the persistence of drug seeking and relapse. Behavioral momentum theory is a framework for understanding how the discriminative-stimulus context in which operant behavior occurs governs the persistence of that behavior. The theory suggests that both resistance to change and r...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Pyszczynski AD,Shahan TA

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is accumulating evidence that sex plays a critical role in drug abuse. Female sex hormones have been shown to affect central nervous system function and modulate the effects of drugs of abuse. For example, γ-aminobutyric acid type A (GABA(A)) receptor function is positively modulated by progesterone metabolites....

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Babalonis S,Lile JA,Martin CA,Kelly TH

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained on one of two multiple random-interval schedules of reinforcement, which contained both ascending and descending reinforcement density sequences. The design of the schedules made it possible to determine whether performance changes in a particular component depended on the reinforcement density in th...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Willner P,Phillips G,Sampson D,Muscat R

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Current concepts of basal ganglia function have evolved from the essentially motoric, to include a range of extramotoric functions that involve not only dopaminergic but also cholinergic, γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA)ergic and glutamatergic mechanisms. We consider these mechanisms and their efferent systems, including sp...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Ikeda H,Adachi K,Fujita S,Tomiyama K,Saigusa T,Kobayashi M,Koshikawa N,Waddington JL

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interactions of -adrenoceptors and acute restraint stress with morphine state-dependent memory of passive avoidance were examined in mice. Memory acquired following pre-training morphine administration (5 mg/kg, i.p.) was dose- and time-dependently retrieved by pre-test morphine; this effect was reversible by yohi...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Homayoun H,Khavandgar S,Zarrindast MR

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A range of selective dopamine D1 and D2 receptor agonists and antagonists was used to characterize to the discriminative stimuli produced by d-amphetamine (0.5mg/kg) and the D1 agonists SKF 81297 (0.1mg/kg). In rats trained to discriminate d-amphetamine (0.5mg/kg) from saline, d-amphetamine produced a dose-related inc...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Reavill C,B Bond,Overend P,Hunter AJ

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Baclofen has shown promise in treating substance use disorders and also reduced binge frequency in an open-label trial. This placebo-controlled, double-blind, crossover study further assessed the effects of baclofen on binge eating. Twelve individuals who self-reported binge eating completed the study. Data were colle...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Corwin RL,Boan J,Peters KF,Ulbrecht JS

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sinomenine is a bioactive alkaloid extracted from Sinomenium acutum. Here, we investigated the antidepressant effects of sinomenine in mice. The antidepressant actions of sinomenine were first examined in the forced-swim test and the tail-suspension test, and then assessed in the chronic social defeat stress (CSDS) mo...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Li X,Liu C,Jiang B,Chen K,Li W,Wang H

更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of the present experiments was to develop and validate pharmacologically an automated, relatively rapid, and reproducible behavioral model of learning and memory using an autoshaping procedure in mice. Nose-poke responses into a recessed area were differentiated by response-dependent reinforcement during t...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Vanover KE,Barrett JE

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evidence is mounting that prenatal protein malnutrition affects the physiological properties of the GABAergic neurotransmitter system in rats. To investigate the functional behavioral consequences of these changes, chlordiazepoxide (CDP, a positive modulator of the GABA(A) receptor) was applied directly to the medial ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Tonkiss J,Trzcińska M,Shultz P,Vincitore M,Galler JR

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In light of the adverse side-effects of opioids, cannabinoid receptor agonists may provide an effective alternative for the treatment of cancer pain. This study examined the potency and efficacy of synthetic CB1 and CB2 receptor agonists in a murine model of tumor pain. Intraplantar injection of the CB1 receptor agoni...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Khasabova IA,Gielissen J,Chandiramani A,Harding-Rose C,Odeh DA,Simone DA,Seybold VS

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cannabinoid receptor agonist Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) enhances the antinociceptive effects of µ-opioid receptor agonists, raising the possibility of using a combination of THC and opioids for treating pain. This study examined the effects of noncontingent and contingent administration of THC on intravenous ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Li JX,Koek W,France CP

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tolerance develops to the cardiovascular and subjective effects of intravenous cocaine during single self-administration sessions, but diminishes within 3 h after the session ends. To examine whether a similar pattern of tolerance occurs to smoked cocaine, seven adult 'crack' cocaine users completed a protocol investi...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Ward AS,Haney M,Fischman MW,Foltin RW

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00