Lithium's effect in forced-swim test is blood level dependent but not dependent on weight loss.

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：:The present study estimated the apparent intrinsic activity of the cannabinoid CB1 receptor ligands CP 55,940, Delta9-tetrahydrocannabinol (Delta9-THC) and SR 141716A in a highly sensitive in vivo assay. Rats were trained to discriminate the cannabinoid CB1 receptor agonist CP 55,940 (either 0.03 or 0.014 mg/kg, i.p.,...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： De Vry J,Jentzsch KR

更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined effects of the α2/α3-subtype-selective GABAA receptor positive allosteric modulator KRM-II-81 in an assay of pain-related behavioral depression. Adult, male Sprague-Dawley rats responded for electrical brain stimulation in a frequency-rate intracranial self-stimulation (ICSS) procedure. Intraperito...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Moerke MJ,Li G,Golani LK,Cook J,Negus SS

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：: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：:Orexin plays an important role in pain modulation. Orexin-1 and orexin-2 receptors (Ox1r and Ox2r) are found at high density in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray matter (vlPAG). Our previous study showed that chemical stimulation of the lateral hypothalamus with carbachol induces antinociception in the tail-flick ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Esmaeili MH,Reisi Z,Ezzatpanah S,Haghparast A

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In previous studies, it was shown that apomorphine-induced stereotyped behaviour could be conditioned when apomorphine was repeatedly paired with sensory stimuli (CS). Since in these experiments, the sum of various sensory stimuli were applied, it seemed of interest to use each sensory stimulus separately in order to ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Ferger B,Kuschinsky K

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：:Recent examination of the mixed dopamine agonist apomorphine suggests that dopamine inhibits both passive avoidance and response suppression learning. The present study investigated the effects of selective dopamine agonists on memory consolidation using a passive avoidance task in the day-old chick. The dopamine D1 a...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Hale MW,Crowe SF

更新日期：2002-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mood and anxiety disorders, and rodent phenotypic measures modeling these disorders, have a strong genetic component. Various assays are used to study the neurobiological basis of fear-related and anxiety-related behaviors, phenotype genetically modified mice, and elucidate pharmacological modulation of these behavior...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Brigman JL,Mathur P,Lu L,Williams RW,Holmes A

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pair-housed, water-deprived rats were trained to run in a two-way shuttle box, using water reinforcement. Animals were tested either singly or in pairs; in the paired condition, the animals were required to shuttle in close physical proximity. Paired performance, but not single performance was severely disrupted by si...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

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

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our earlier study demonstrated that Coeloglossum viride (L.) Hartm. var. bracteatum (Willd.) extract (CE) significantly improved the impaired memory in mice caused by permanent two-vessel occlusion. To investigate whether chronic treatment with CE could influence cerebral ischemia-induced neuronal and cognitive impair...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Ma B,Li M,Nong H,Shi J,Liu G,Zhang J

更新日期：2008-07-01 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：: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：: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：:In a step-down passive avoidance task, the pre-training injection of 1.25-10 mg/kg of morphine impaired memory. This was restored when injection of the same dose of morphine (pre-test treatment) was repeated 24 h later (morphine state-dependent learning: morphine St-D). ATP-dependent potassium (K(ATP)) channels have b...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Zarrindast MR,Jafari MR,Shafaghi B,Djahanguiri B

更新日期：2004-03-01 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：: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：:The present experiments investigated the validity and utility of measuring the habituation of a nose-poke response to assess memory in mice. Mice were placed in an operant chamber equipped with two holes in one wall. Nose-poke responses were recorded by the interruption of a photo-beam across the openings of the holes...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Brodkin J

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have shown that ethanol produces conditioned place preference (CPP) in mice when injections are given immediately before exposure to the conditioned stimulus (CS). Paradoxically, however, injection of ethanol immediately after the CS produces conditioned place aversion (CPA). Four experiments were con...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Cunningham CL,Henderson CM

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:These studies investigated the role of serotonin-1A (5-HT1A) and 5-HT2A receptors in the behavioral effects of dipropyltryptamine (DPT). Eight rats discriminated 0.56 mg/kg 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM) from saline and responded under a fixed ratio 5 schedule of food presentation; 12 other rats were used for...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Li JX,Rice KC,France CP

更新日期：2007-07-01 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：: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：:The aims of the study were to test whether drug dose is positively related to the magnitude of the conditioned response following sensitization to the behavioural effects of cocaine and to investigate the relationship between the conditioned response and cocaine-induced sensitization. Male mice (C57BL/6J) were first i...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Michel A,Tirelli E

更新日期：2002-02-01 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：: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：: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：:Previous studies have indicated that dopamine D1 receptors in the ventral tegmental area (VTA) may play an important role in the development of sensitization to amphetamine. The present study was designed to determine if D1 receptors are also important in the development of cocaine-induced behavioral and neurochemical...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Steketee JD

更新日期：1998-02-01 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

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