The effects of selective dopamine agonists on a passive avoidance learning task in the day-old chick.

abstract：:The transient receptor potential (TRP) channel superfamily is comprised of a large group of cation-permeable channels, which display an extraordinary diversity of roles in sensory signaling and are involved in plethora of animal behaviors. These channels are activated through a wide variety of mechanisms and participa...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Tsagareli MG,Nozadze I

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A symposium held at the 50th annual meeting of the Behavioral Pharmacology Society in May 2007 reviewed progress in the human behavioral pharmacology of drug abuse. Studies on drug self-administration in humans are reviewed that assessed reinforcing and subjective effects of drugs of abuse. The close parallels observe...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Comer SD,Bickel WK,Yi R,de Wit H,Higgins ST,Wenger GR,Johanson CE,Kreek MJ

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Dopaminergic (DA) agonist-induced yawning in rats seems to be mediated by DA D3 receptors, and low doses of several DA agonists decrease locomotor activity, an effect attributed to presynaptic D2 receptors. Effects of several DA agonists on yawning and locomotor activity were examined in rats and mice. Yawning was rel...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Li SM,Collins GT,Paul NM,Grundt P,Newman AH,Xu M,Grandy DK,Woods JH,Katz JL

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Altered motivation for drugs of abuse is a central feature of most definitions of drug dependence and the impact of drug-related cues on motivation is of current interest. However, since most studies of cue-reactivity have not used behavioural measures of motivation, their results are often difficult to interpret in m...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Glautier S,Rigney U,Willner P

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Tinkertoy test (TTT) has often been used to assess executive function. Despite its clinical importance, there are few published normative data for it. Thus, the primary aim of this study was to fill this gap. Moreover, as there exists a sex difference in many cognitive abilities and neuropsychological tests, a sec...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Lambert M,Stenger J,Bielajew C

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects on memory of drugs of abuse from several pharmacological classes were examined in four adult male squirrel monkeys responding under a delayed matching-to-sample schedule of food presentation. Subjects were required to emit 20 responses on a sample key transilluminated by either a constant white or a flashi...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Baron SP,Wenger GR

更新日期：2001-07-01 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：:Post-training administration of different doses of baclofen (a GABAB agonist) has been shown to impair memory retention, in a step-down passive avoidance test in mice. We have studied the effects of beta-adrenergic agonists and antagonists on baclofen-induced memory impairment in mice. Dobutamine (a beta 1-agonist) or...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Zarrindast MR,Haidari H,Jafari MR,Djahanguiri B

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroinflammation and β-amyloid (Aβ) deposition in the brain are well known characteristics of neurodegeneration. Diabetes and hypercholesterolemia are the main risk factors leading to memory loss and cognitive impairment. Recently, it was found that statins and thiazolidinediones have promising anti-inflammatory and ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Ekladious ST,El Sayed NS

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was designed to explore whether differences in the psychomotor, subjective and memory effects of different benzodiazepines (BDZ) relate to differences in their potencies. Two BDZs with similar kinetics but different potencies were compared. Flunitrazepam (0.5 and 1.0mg, nitrazepam (5 and 10mg) or placebo we...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Pompéia S,Gorenstein C,Curran HV

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of RO-600175, a selective 5-HT2C receptor agonist, were studied in adult rats implanted for chronic sleep recordings. Intraperitoneal administration of RO-600175 (4 mg/kg) during the light phase of the light-dark cycle significantly increased wakefulness and reduced slow wave sleep and rapid-eye-movement s...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Monti JM,Jantos H

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has been reported that, in animals trained to discriminate ethanol, stimulus control generalized to the non-competitive NMDA antagonists phencyclidine, ketamine and dizocilpine. In the present study, rats were trained to discriminate a dose of ethanol (1g/kg, i.p.) and substitution tests were carried out with phenc...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Sanger DJ

更新日期：1993-10-01 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：: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：: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：:Rats were given fixed-time, 1-min food-pellet delivery sessions, for 3 h every day, which resulted in over drinking (schedule-induced polydipsia). In previous research, groups of animals came to prefer solutions of cocaine or lidocaine to concurrently presented water, if the drugs were first offered in a glucose/sacch...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Falk JL,Yosef E,Schwartz A,Lau CE

更新日期：1999-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dopamine D3/D2 receptor agonists 7-OH-DPAT, quinpirole, quinelorane, and PD128907, the mixed dopamine agonist apomorphine, the D2 agonist bromocriptine, and the D1/D5 agonist SKF38393 were examined in models of hypothermia and prepulse inhibition (PPI) in Wistar rats. As dopamine agonist-induced hypothermia has be...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Varty GB,Higgins GA

更新日期：1998-09-01 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：: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 behavioural effects of six compounds with N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist properties were compared on the responding of rats maintained by a differential reinforcement of low rate 15s (DRL-15s) schedule. This schedule requires that responses be temporally spaced in order to be reinforced (timing behaviour)....

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Sanger DJ

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetaldehyde has been suggested to mediate a number of the pharmacological and behavioural effects of ethanol. Recently, several studies investigated the role of acetaldehyde in the subjective effects of ethanol, but obtained conflicting results. With the discriminative taste aversion (DTA) procedure, high acetaldehyd...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Quertemont E

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty male Wistar rats were trained under an alternating-lever cyclic-ratio (ALCR) schedule of food reinforcement. When responding showed no trends, each subject was subcutaneously implanted with an Alzet osmotic mini-pump, connected to a chronic indwelling cannula extending into the lateral ventricle of the brain. T...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Richardson RL,Kim EM,Gardiner T,O'Hare E

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to analyse adrenergic and serotonergic interactions in the anxiolytic effects of several 5-HT(1A) agonists including ipsapirone, buspirone, indorenate and 8-OH-DPAT. To this end, the effects of different doses of the adrenergic compounds clonidine (0.015-0.0625mg/kg), yohimbine (0.125-0.5...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： López-Rubalcava C,Fernández-Guasti A

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Serotonin-selective reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) have been shown to enhance the locomotor stimulatory, discriminative-stimulus, and convulsive effects of cocaine in rodents. A pharmacokinetic mechanism for the interaction is supported by increases in the brain levels of cocaine by fluoxetine treatment. Furthermore, the...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Soto PL,Hiranita T,Katz JL

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A previous study from this laboratory reported an antiaversive effect of the beta-adrenoceptor blocker propranolol microinjected into the dorsal periaqueductal grey (DPAG) of the rat, that was antagonized by the 5-HT(2) receptor blocker ritanserin. The present results show that microinjection into the DPAG of isamolta...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Nogueira RL,Graeff FG

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a modified light-dark exploration test in mice, 5-hydroxytryptophan, at doses (25-50 mg/kg) that approximately doubled the 5-HT content in the cerebral cortex, reduced the time spent by mice in the white compartment, suggesting an anxiogenic effect. Depletion of brain 5-HT content with p-chlorophenylalanine (300 mg...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Artaiz I,Zazpe A,Del Río J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibitors of phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A) represent a novel class of potential antipsychotic compounds. These principles increase the level of cAMP and cGMP in the medium spiny neurons of the striatum and resemble the neurochemical consequences of dopamine D2 receptor inhibition and dopamine D1 receptor stimulation...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Nikiforuk A,Potasiewicz A,Rafa D,Drescher K,Bespalov A,Popik P

更新日期：2016-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pineal melatonin secretion occurs at night in all vertebrates and the duration of its secretion is negatively correlated with day length. As short-day exposure was previously shown to decrease emotional behaviour of mice toward an unfamiliar environment, the present study was designed to determine whether such behavio...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Kopp C,Vogel E,Rettori MC,Delagrange P,Renard P,Lesieur D,Misslin R

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine a potential mechanism of action of gabapentin to manage cannabis-use disorders by determining the interoceptive effects of gabapentin in cannabis users discriminating [INCREMENT]-tetrahydrocannabinol ([INCREMENT]-THC) using a pharmacologically selective drug-discrimination p...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Lile JA,Wesley MJ,Kelly TH,Hays LR

更新日期：2016-04-01 00:00:00