Influence of benzodiazepine tranquilizers on scopolamine-induced locomotor stimulation in mice.

abstract：:Single oral and intramuscular (i.m.) doses of imipramine (IMI) were administered to four normal males. Serum and urine concentrations of IMI, desipramine (DMI) and their unconjugated 2-hydroxy metabolites were measured by high-pressure liquid chromatography (HPLC). Urinary conjugated 2-hydroxy metabolites were also me...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Sutfin TA,DeVane CL,Jusko WJ

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Clinically, nicotine improves attention, but this has proven difficult to demonstrate preclinically. We tested nicotine in Sprague-Dawley (SD) and Lister hooded (LH) rats in the five-choice serial reaction time task. Since SD rats demonstrate lower asymptotic performance than LH rats, we surmised that nicotin...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Mirza NR,Bright JL

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Under the fixed-consecutive-number schedule (FCN), pigeons were reinforced for responding eight or more times on one response key (work key), and then responding once on a second response key. In one component of this schedule, an external stimulus signalled the completion of the response requirement on the work key (...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Picker M,Dykstra LA

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Abnormal beta-adrenergic receptor (betaAR) density in the brains of suicide victims has been reported, although results of studies are inconsistent. Ethanol modifies betaAR-mediated signal transduction. Moreover abnormal betaAR function has been implicated in alcoholism. BetaAR antagonists, which were used as ligands ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Gurguis GN,Turkka J,Laruelle M,Kleinman J,Linnoila M

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Vasopressin (AVP) plays a role in regulating anxiety, which is thought to be partially mediated through the V1a receptor. Recently, JNJ-17308616 was identified as a V1a antagonist. OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this work was to assess V1a receptor affinity and selectivity of JNJ-17308616 and in vivo efficacy in ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bleickardt CJ,Mullins DE,Macsweeney CP,Werner BJ,Pond AJ,Guzzi MF,Martin FD,Varty GB,Hodgson RA

更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between zolpidem use and the risk of acute pancreatitis in Taiwan. METHODS:In this population-based case-control study using the database from the Taiwan National Health Insurance Program from 2000 to 2011, we selected 4535 subjects aged 20-84 years ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Lai SW,Lin CL,Liao KF

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:A recent report described sex differences in the effects of nicotine use and withdrawal on prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle (PPI), but no sex differences in PPI in non-smokers. OBJECTIVE:To determine whether previously reported male>female acoustic PPI reflect sex differences in smoking effects on PPI...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Swerdlow NR,Geyer MA,Hartman PL,Sprock J,Auerbach PP,Cadenhead K,Perry W,Braff DL

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of the selective 5-HT1A agonists 8-OH-DPAT and flesinoxan and the selective 5-HT2 antagonists ritanserin and ketanserin on immobility time in rats bred for predisposition to catalepsy have been studied. Treatment with 8-OH-DPAT as well as flesinoxan caused a marked dose-dependent decrease in immobility tim...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kulikov AV,Kolpakov VG,Maslova GB,Kozintsev I,Popova NK

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Food intake of four adult male baboons (Papio c. anubis) was monitored during daily experimental sessions lasting 22 h. Food was available under a two-component operant schedule. Following completion of the first "procurement component" response requirement, access to food, i.e., a meal, became available under the sec...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Foltin RW,Fischman MW,Byrne MF

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of ovarian steroids on the benzodiazepine receptor was assessed in the elevated plus-maze and, after restraint stress, in benzodiazepine receptor binding assays. Vehicle-treated proestrous rats displayed anxiolytic behavior, relative to diestrus or estrous rats. Anxiolytic behavior was observed after 1 or 2...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bitran D,Dowd JA

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Somatostatin and its receptors have been localized in brain nuclei implicated in motor control, such as the striatum, nucleus accumbens, ventral pallidum, and globus pallidus (GP). OBJECTIVES:The objective of this study was to investigate the role of somatostatin receptors (sst(1,2,4)) in the GP on dopamine ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Marazioti A,Pitychoutis PM,Papadopoulou-Daifoti Z,Spyraki C,Thermos K

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This experiment examined the effect of destruction of the ascending 5-hydroxytryptaminergic (5HTergic) pathways on performance in a free-operant timing schedule. Rats received either injections of 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine into the dorsal and median raphe nuclei or sham lesions. They were trained to press levers for a s...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： al-Zahrani SS,Ho MY,Velazquez Martinez DN,Lopez Cabrera M,Bradshaw CM,Szabadi E

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Anticipatory nausea (AN) experienced by chemotherapy patients is resistant to current anti-nausea treatments. In this study, the effect of manipulation of the endocannabinoid (EC) system on a rat model of nausea (conditioned gaping) was determined. OBJECTIVE:The potential of cannabidiol (CBD) and the fatty a...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Rock EM,Limebeer CL,Mechoulam R,Piomelli D,Parker LA

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:The majority of individuals who suffer an episode of depression go on to experience recurrences. We have proposed, based upon the observation that reducing serotonin via acute tryptophan depletion (ATD) is more likely to induce negative mood in recovered depressed individuals than never depressed individua...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Robinson OJ,Sahakian BJ

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of acutely or chronically administered carbamazepine were studied in rats submitted to the modified Geller-Seifter conflict test. Diazepam was used as a standard anxiolytic. The results showed an increase in punished response after carbamazepine, as observed with diazepam, leading to the suggestion of an a...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Almeida RN,Leite JR

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined whether any locus postsynaptic to the GABAergic striatonigral projection might be involved in the enhancement of behavioral response to dopaminergic stimulants induced by chronic treatment with either neuroleptic drugs or stimulants. Rats exposed chronically to either chlorpromazine or cocaine were tested ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Bachus SE,Gale K

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Brain reward pathways implicated in addiction appear to be less reactive in regular drug users; behavioural manifestations may include decreased sensitivity to natural reinforcers. OBJECTIVES:This study aimed to replicate earlier findings of abstinence-associated incentive motivation deficits in smokers and ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Dawkins L,Powell JH,West R,Powell J,Pickering A

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Alcohol-associated cues elicit craving in human addicts but little is known about craving mechanisms. Current animal models focus on relapse and this may confound the effect of environmental cues. OBJECTIVES. To develop a model to study the effects of environmental cues on alcohol consumption in animals not e...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Pickering C,Liljequist S

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Intermittent social defeat stress can induce neuroadaptations that promote compulsive drug taking. Within the mesocorticolimbic circuit, repeated cocaine administration activates extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK). OBJECTIVE:The present experiments examine whether changes in ERK phosphorylation are ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Yap JJ,Chartoff EH,Holly EN,Potter DN,Carlezon WA Jr,Miczek KA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined the role of the serotonin 5-HT2 receptor in motor function by examining the effect of antagonists on the motor performance of a cranial nerve reflex, the nictitating membrane (NM) reflex of the rabbit. The NM reflex was elicited by varying intensities of a tactile stimulus and the magnitudes of the...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Harvey JA,Welsh SE,Hood H,Romano AG

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Benztropine mesylate (Cogentin) and physostigmine salicylate (Antilirium), were tested for changes in tongue protrusions, retrusions, and swallowing acts in rats anesthetized with a 100 mg/kg IM injection of ketamine hydrochloride. These ketamine-induced linguopharyngeal events were monitored by means of a force displ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Marco LA,Joshi RS,Brown C,Aldes LD,Chronister RB

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is evidence that mGlu2/3 receptors regulate 5-HT2A signaling, interactions that have been theorized to play a role in the antipsychotic-like effects of mGlu2/3 agonists as well as the hallucinogenic effects of 5-HT2A agonists. One approach to unraveling this interaction is through the chronic administr...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Halberstadt AL,van der Zee JVF,Chatha M,Geyer MA,Powell SB

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The number of nerve cells in two different areas of the corpus striatum (i.e., ventrolateral and dorsomedial) was estimated in rat brain after long-term (36 weeks) treatment with the neuroleptic flupenthixol. Nine rats were given weekly injections of 4 mg/kg flupenthixol dissolved in Viscoleo i.m., and seven rats rece...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Nielsen EB,Lyon M

更新日期：1978-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the effects of two central nicotinic-cholinergic receptor agonists and an antagonist on performance accuracy of a rat, delayed stimulus discrimination task (DSDT). Rats were trained to discriminate between an auditory and visual stimulus by pressing a right or left lever. To diminish the rat's abi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Terry AV Jr,Buccafusco JJ,Jackson WJ,Zagrodnik S,Evans-Martin FF,Decker MW

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Demonstrations of associative tolerance to the analgesic effects of morphine, not confounded by practice or novelty effects, have been restricted to the tail-flick and flinch-jump tests. OBJECTIVES:Experiment 1 investigated whether associative tolerance would be found on two other nociceptive assessment meth...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Cepeda-Benito A,Tiffany ST,Cox LS

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Neuroactive derivatives of steroid hormones, neurosteroids, can act on GABAA receptors (GABAARs) to potentiate the effects of GABA on these receptors. Neurosteroids become elevated to physiologically relevant levels under conditions characterized by increased steroid hormones. There is considerable evidence f...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： MacKenzie G,Maguire J

更新日期：2014-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abnormalities of membrane phospholipid metabolism have been described in Alzheimer's disease (AD). We investigated, with the aid of (31)P magnetic resonance spectroscopy, the in vivo intracerebral availability of phosphomonoesters (PME) and phosphodiesters (PDE) in patients with AD. METHODS:Eighteen outpati...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Forlenza OV,Wacker P,Nunes PV,Yacubian J,Castro CC,Otaduy MC,Gattaz WF

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Medication and illicit drugs can have detrimental side effects which impair driving performance. A drug's impairing potential should be determined by well-validated, reliable, and sensitive tests and ideally be calibrated by benchmark drugs and doses. To date, no consensus has been reached on the issue of whi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Jongen S,Vuurman E,Ramaekers J,Vermeeren A

更新日期：2014-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The neurochemical specificity of physiological, biochemical, and psychological responses to dextroamphetamine was tested by pretreating volunteers with haloperidol (0.014 mg/kg IM), propranolol (0.1 mg/kg IV), thymoxamine (0.1 mg/kg IV), or placebo prior to 0.3 mg/kg IV amphetamine. Healthy volunteers (N = 12) partici...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Nurnberger JI Jr,Simmons-Alling S,Kessler L,Jimerson S,Schreiber J,Hollander E,Tamminga CA,Nadi NS,Goldstein DS,Gershon ES

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The thymoleptics potentiate and modify the behavioral effects of apomorphine (probably the most specific dopaminergic agonist) as well as those of Dopa. The effect of the thymoleptics is not abolished by emptying of amine stores, and this together with other evidence suggests that these drugs facilitate the access of ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Molander L,Randrup A

更新日期：1976-09-17 00:00:00