Citalopram counteracts depressive-like symptoms evoked by chronic social stress in rats.

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：: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：: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：:Insufficient research has been carried out on the effects of repeated treatments with psychostimulants on agonistic behaviour. These effects were studied in mice using different schedules of administration and employing a low dose of amphetamine (1.5 mg/kg) which did not produce significant motor disruptions. After tw...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Moro M,Salvador A,Simón VM

更新日期：1997-08-01 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：:The psychomotor/cognitive performance, subject-rated, and observer-rated effects of single oral doses of the benzodiazepine hypnotic triazolam (0.125, 0.25, and 0.5 mg/70 kg) and the imidazopyridine hypnotic zolpidem (5, 10, and 20 mg/70 kg) were compared in 11 volunteers, in a double-blind, placebo-controlled, crosso...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Mintzer MZ,Frey JM,Yingling JE,Griffiths RR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug addiction is a progressive, relapsing disease comprised of interlocking stages of disordered motivation. Numerous animal models describing various stages of the addiction process have been developed over the past few decades, providing considerable advantages for the modeling of drug addiction compared with other...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Edwards S,Koob GF

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phencyclidine (PCP) can induce a model psychosis in humans that mimics the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia. The purpose of the present study was to determine whether PCP can induce similar behavioural effects in rats and whether these effects can be alleviated by neuroleptic drug treatment. Rats were t...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Sams-Dodd F

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cocaine demand is a behavioral economic measure assessing drug reward value and motivation to use drug. The purpose of the current study was to develop a brief assessment of cocaine demand (BACD). Results from the BACD were compared with self-report measures of cocaine use. Participants consisted of treatment-seeking ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Yoon JH,de Dios C,Suchting R,Vincent JN,McKay SA,Lane SD,Schmitz JM

更新日期：2020-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：:We have observed that, after myocardial infarction (MI), rats display apoptosis in the limbic system that can be prevented by pentoxifylline (PTX), a proinflammatory cytokine inhibitor. We have hypothesized that reduction of apoptosis in the limbic system can attenuate the depressive behaviour occurring post-MI. The p...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Bah TM,Kaloustian S,Rousseau G,Godbout R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute (10mg/kg, i.p.) and chronic (10mg/kg/day, i.p. for 10 days) diazepam treatments decreased hippocampal dialysate 5-HT (but not 5-HIAA) concentrations in freely moving rats, suggesting decreased availability of 5-HT to receptors. Twenty-four hours after the last chronic diazepam injection, hippocampal dialysate 5-...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Gibson EL,Barnfield AM,Curzon G

更新日期：1996-03-01 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：:The strain of spontaneously hypertensive rats (SHR) is considered a genetic model for the study of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), as it displays hyperactivity, impulsivity and poorly sustained attention. Recently, we have shown the involvement of adenosinergic neuromodulation in the SHR's short-term ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Pires VA,Pamplona FA,Pandolfo P,Fernandes D,Prediger RD,Takahashi RN

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Few studies have investigated the effects of chronic cannabinoid exposure on memory performance and whether tolerance occurs to cannabinoid-induced memory impairment. Here, we studied the effects of repeated exposure to Delta-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC: 1 mg/kg) on spatial memory and zif268 expression in mice. One grou...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Boucher AA,Vivier L,Metna-Laurent M,Brayda-Bruno L,Mons N,Arnold JC,Micheau J

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Animal models of nicotine dependence are fundamental experimental tools for the understanding of the neurobiological and molecular processes underlying smoking behaviour. Substance use is controlled by four main processes: positive reinforcing effects, aversive effects, discriminative effects and stimulus-conditioned ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Merlo Pich E,Chiamulera C,Carboni L

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is high comorbidity between depression and addiction. Features of addiction relevant to depression have been studied extensively, but less is known about features of depression relevant to addiction. Here, we have studied the effects of chronic mild stress (CMS), a valid animal model of depression, on measures o...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Papp M,Gruca P,Lason-Tyburkiewicz M,Litwa E,Willner P

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The discriminative stimulus effects of the imidazopyridine hypnotic zolpidem and the classic benzodiazepine hypnotic triazolam were examined in seven healthy volunteers using a three-response drug discrimination procedure and a within-subject design. During an initial sampling phase, the training drug conditions (plac...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Mintzer MZ,Frey JM,Griffiths RR

更新日期：1998-11-01 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

abstract：:Relatively little is known about the behavioral effects of the neurosteroids compared with other drugs that modulate the γ-aminobutyric acid A (GABAA) receptor complex. This study examined the acute effects of pregnanolone and dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA) in male rats responding under a differential-reinforcement-of-...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Amato RJ,Lewis PB,He H,Winsauer PJ

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drug-addicted individuals show high levels of impulsive choice, characterized by preference for small immediate over larger but delayed rewards. Although the causal relationship between chronic drug use and elevated impulsive choice in humans has been unclear, a small but growing body of literature over the past decad...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Setlow B,Mendez IA,Mitchell MR,Simon NW

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic morphine-induced withdrawal syndrome after morphine cessation remains a severe obstacle in the clinical treatment of morphine. Previous studies have shown that nitric oxide synthetase (NOS) inhibitors may have therapeutic potential in morphine withdrawal in humans. The mechanisms that underlie expression of mo...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Mori T,Ito S,Matsubayashi K,Sawaguchi T

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Opioid-maintained volunteers were trained to distinguish between a low dose of the opioid antagonist naloxone (0.15 mg/70 kg, i.m.; i.e. Drug A) and placebo (i.e. Drug B), under an instructed novel-response drug discrimination procedure in which subjects identify the drug condition as 'A', 'B', or 'N' (neither A nor B...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Oliveto A,Sevarino K,McCance-Katz E,Benios T,Poling J,Feingold A

更新日期：2003-03-01 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：:In the present study, we focused on γ-aminobutyric acid (GABA) signaling through the γ-aminobutyric acid transporter (GAT) in the developing rat cerebral cortex. Tiagabine was used as a GAT inhibitor. The offspring received injections from birth until postnatal day 21 intraperitoneally. Physical development and neurol...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Shahrokhi A,Hassanzadeh G,Vousooghi N,Joghataei MT,Eftekhari S,Zarrindast MR

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this experiment we examined the effect of a serotonin receptor (5-HT1A) agonist and antagonist WAY-100635 (N-[2-(4-[2-methoxy-phenyl]-1-piperazinyl)ethyl]-N-2-pyridinylcyclohexane-carboxamide) on temporal differentiation, in intact rats and rats whose serotonergic (5-HTergic) pathways had been destroyed by 5,7-dihy...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Body S,Kheramin S,Mobini S,Ho MY,Velazquez-Martinez DN,Bradshaw CM,Szabadi E

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glutamate, an excitatory neurotransmitter in the brain, produces excitotoxicity through its agonistic action on postsynaptic N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor, resulting in neurodegeneration. We hypothesized that the administration of low doses of glutamate in cerebral ischemia could attenuate the excitotoxicity in neuron...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Ramanathan M,Abdul KK,Justin A

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined interactions between cocaine and drugs that act as direct agonists at subtypes of "D2-like" dopamine receptors. The drugs 7-OH-DPAT, quinpirole and RU24213 were studied alone and in combination with cocaine for their effects on locomotor activity in non-habituated mice. Locomotor activity was measu...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Tirelli E,Reggers J,Terry P

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Much evidence has shown that the inferior colliculus may be part of a brain system commanding defensive behavior. In the present work, evidence is presented for the serotonergic modulation of the neural substrate of aversive states elaborated in this structure. Rats implanted with a cannula in the inferior colliculus ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Melo LL,Brando ML

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An individual's susceptibility to psychological and physical disorders associated with chronic stress exposure, for example, cardiovascular and infectious disease, may also be predicted by their reactivity to acute stress. One factor associated with both stress resilience and health outcomes is personality. An underst...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Childs E,White TL,de Wit H

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Varenicline is a smoking cessation pharmacotherapy with a presumed mechanism of action of partial efficacy at the α4β2 nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR); however, the extent to which daily varenicline use leads to changes in nAChR sensitivity is unclear. This study examined the consequences of daily varenicline...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： de Moura FB,McMahon LR

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00