5-HT mediation of the antiaversive effect of isamoltane injected into the dorsal periaqueductal grey.

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：:Eating a diet high in fat can lead to negative health consequences, including obesity and insulin resistance. Omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (such as those found in fish oil) prevent high fat diet-induced obesity and insulin resistance in rats. Eating a high fat diet also enhances sensitivity of rats to the behav...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Hernandez-Casner C,Ramos J,Serafine KM

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some reports suggest that older patients are less responsive to antidepressants than young adults, but this idea has not been fully supported. Here, we investigated the role of aging in the behavioral effects of the antidepressants, desipramine (DMI) (5, 10, and 20 mg/kg) and fluoxetine (FLX) (5, 10, and 20 mg/kg) in ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Olivares-Nazario M,Fernández-Guasti A,Martínez-Mota L

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuropsychiatric disorders, such as addiction, are associated with cognitive impairment, including learning and memory deficits. Previous research has demonstrated that the chronic use of methamphetamine (METH) induces long-term cognitive impairment and cannabidiol (CBD), as a neuroprotectant, can reverse spatial memo...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Razavi Y,Shabani R,Mehdizadeh M,Haghparast A

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioural sensitization to the locomotor stimulant effect of (+)-amphetamine or quinpirole was induced in rats by intermittent drug administration. Once established, endogenous dopamine release (DA) was measured in slices containing nucleus accumbens using fast cyclic voltammetry. DA release induced by single pulse ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Muscat R,Patel J,Trout SJ,Wieczorek W,Kruk ZL

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of d-amphetamine, chlorpromazine and pentobarbital on single alternation were compared in mice and rats. Chlorpromazine and d-amphetamine produced dose-related decreases in both accuracy and rate of responding with no differences in species sensitivity. Pentobarbital also produced dose-dependent decreases ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Donald JM,McMillan DE

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The interoceptive stimulus induced by clozapine (5 mg/kg, i.p.) has been characterized in an operant drug discrimination procedure in the rat using a wide range of receptor subtype-selective agonists and antagonists. Only the muscarinic receptor antagonist scopolamine generalized fully to clozapine (>80%). Partial gen...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Goudie AJ,Smith JA,Taylor A,Taylor MA,Tricklebank MD

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:To investigate the role of the nucleus accumbens core (NAc) in the development of quinpirole-induced compulsive checking, rats received an excitotoxic lesion of NAc or sham lesion and were injected with quinpirole (0.5 mg/kg) or saline; development of checking behavior was monitored for 10 biweekly tests. The results ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Ballester González J,Dvorkin-Gheva A,Silva C,Foster JA,Szechtman H

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pathophysiological role of the neurosteroid 3alpha-hydroxy-5alpha-pregnan-20-one (allopregnanolone) in neuropsychiatric disorders has been highlighted in several recent investigations. For instance, allopregnanolone levels are decreased in the CSF of patients with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and major un...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Pinna G

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine agonist apomorphine (apo) elicits stereotyped pecking bouts in pigeons, a response which increases with successive apo injections. The present study sought, first, to confirm the hypothesis that this sensitization arises through a Pavlovian conditioning driven by both external and internal cues; and, seco...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Acerbo MJ,Godoy AM,Delius JD

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study assessed whether access to a sweet solution in the home cage could change sensitivity to cocaine, using a drug discrimination procedure. Rats were trained to discriminate 10 mg/kg cocaine from saline. After acquisition, rats were tested with a cumulative dose-response procedure (0-18 mg/kg) for 12 consecuti...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Kohut SJ,Riley AL

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) is an important modulatory neurotransmitter and functions as a key neurodevelopmental signal in the mammalian brain. 5-HT plays a prominent role in regulating various types of psychological processes and functions, including mood and emotion, particularly anxiety, but also in regu...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Wöhr M,van Gaalen MM,Schwarting RK

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Impaired social interaction is a hallmark symptom of many psychiatric diseases, including dependence syndromes (substance use disorders). Helping the addict reorient her/his behavior away from the drug of abuse toward social interaction would be of considerable therapeutic benefit. To study the neural basis of such a ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Pinheiro BS,Seidl SS,Habazettl E,Gruber BE,Bregolin T,Zernig G

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Central nicotinc acetylcholine receptors have been targeted for the development of novel treatments for memory deficits in Alzheimer's disease (AD) and other neurodegenerative disorders. Nicotine itself has been shown to improve memory-related task performance in aged animals and in AD patients. Administration of nico...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Buccafusco JJ,Jackson WJ,Jonnala RR,Terry AV Jr

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor antagonist dizocilpine (MK-801) (0.08 and 0.12 mg/kg, i.p.) was used to examine whether spatial memory is learned state-dependently. Rats pre-treated with drug or saline were trained for 9 days in an eight-arm radial maze, in which four arms were baited. On the ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Kretschmer BD,Fink S

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sensorimotor gating disruptions are seen in various psychiatric illnesses with putatively different pathologies, including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Interestingly, mice lacking the dopamine (DA) transporter (DAT) gene display markedly increased levels of DA, deficits in sensorimotor gating, and hyperactivity...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Powell SB,Young JW,Ong JC,Caron MG,Geyer MA

更新日期：2008-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to examine, in healthy volunteers without histories of extensive sedative use, the acute behavioral effects of doses of alprazolam used in clinical applications. Subjects participated in daily sessions over 12 study days. They consumed a standard breakfast, received an oral drug dose (0, ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Kelly TH,Foltin RW,Serpick E,Fischman MW

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The behaviour of rats in a novel environment was studied using a rapid time-sampling observation procedure followed by a principal component analysis (PCA) of the data. This approach revealed that novel environment behaviour can be described by two factors or principal components. The first factor comprised rearing, s...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Exner M,Clark D

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent recreational use of synthetic cannabinoid ligands, collectively referred to as 'Spice', has raised concerns about their safety and possible differences in their biological effect(s) from marijuana/Δ-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC). AM2201, a highly efficacious, potent cannabinoid receptor 1 (CB1R) agonist, is a ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Järbe TU,Gifford RS,Zvonok A,Makriyannis A

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appetitive behaviours occur in a state of behavioural and physiological activation that allows the optimal performance of these goal-directed behaviours. Here, we tested the hypothesis that histamine neurons under the command of the infralimbic cortex are important to provide behavioural activation. Extracellular hist...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Riveros ME,Forray MI,Torrealba F

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Parkinson's disease (PD) affects ∼1-2% of the elderly population. Development of a neuroprotective therapy that may be initiated early in the course of the disease to retard/prevent disease progression is highly desirable. This study aimed to investigate prophylactic treatment with coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) before paraquat...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Attia HN,Maklad YA

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of µ agonists fentanyl, methadone and morphine and kappa agonist U50,488 on behavior maintained by negative reinforcement were determined. Rats were trained on concurrent schedules in which pressing one lever postponed shock on a Sidman avoidance schedule and pressing the other lever produced signaled peri...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Galizio M,Robinson EG,Ordronneau C

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several allosteric modulators (AMs) of the CB1 receptor have been characterized in vitro, including Org27569, which enhances CB1-specific binding of [H]CP55,940, but behaves as an insurmountable CB1-receptor antagonist in several biochemical assays. Although a growing body of research has investigated the molecular ac...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Gamage TF,Ignatowska-Jankowska BM,Wiley JL,Abdelrahman M,Trembleau L,Greig IR,Thakur GA,Tichkule R,Poklis J,Ross RA,Pertwee RG,Lichtman AH

更新日期：2014-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained on a three-panel runway task prior to injections of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA; 40nmoles/µl/side) into the dorsal hippocampus. One week after the treatment, animals did not show any change in the number of errors on the first runway trial (reference memory), with one correct white and two incorrect b...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Sugimachi K,Izawa K,Nakamura K,Kimura-Iwasaki K,Yamaguchi M,Nakagawa H,Oshino N

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing evidence suggests that antagonistic interactions between specific subtypes of adenosine and dopamine receptors in the basal ganglia are involved in the control of motor activity. However, there are few studies investigating this interaction in other brain regions and its role in additional functions. In the...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Prediger RD,Da Cunha C,Takahashi RN

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is clinical and experimental evidence that treatment with immunosuppressive and antiproliferative drugs such as the calcineurin inhibitor cyclosporine A (CsA) is associated with mental health problems and neuropsychological disturbances in patients. However, it remains unclear whether and to what extent cognitiv...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Kahl AL,Kirchhof J,Füting A,Hütter BO,Wilde B,Witzke O,Benson S,Hadamitzky M,Schedlowski M

更新日期：2017-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The involvement of adrenoreceptor blocking drugs with the 5-HT(1A)-mediated discriminative stimulus was studied in pigeons trained to discriminate the 5-HT(1A) receptor agonist 8-OH-DPAT (0.3mg/kg) from saline. Cumulative dose-response curves were determined for 8-OH-DPAT, the beta-adrenergic antagonist pindolol, the ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Zhang L,Barrett JE

更新日期：1991-11-01 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：:Rats in one group were trained to discriminate alprazolam (1.0mg/kg, i.p.) and in another group diazepam (3.0mg/kg, i.p.) from saline in a two-lever drug discrimination procedure. Food presentation occurred after 10 consecutive responses on the lever associated either with the training drug or with saline. Alprazolam,...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Wettstein JG,Gauthier B

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00