The local application of a flavonoid, (-)-epicatechin, increases the spiking of globus pallidus neurons in a dose-dependent manner and diminishes the catalepsy induced by haloperidol.

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：:Cannabis is the most popular illicit drug used by adolescents. Yet, there are only a few studies that have examined the effects of cannabis use on learning and memory during this sensitive and important neurodevelopmental stage. Male adolescent Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with Δ(9)-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC, 6 mg...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Steel RW,Miller JH,Sim DA,Day DJ

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatments for the positive and negative symptoms of schizophrenia have been explored for decades, but no completely successful therapy has been found as yet. Metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 (mGluR5), which potentiates N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors in brain regions implicated in schizophrenia, has become a novel dr...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Wu Z,Yang Z,Zhang M,Bao X,Han F,Li L

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Adolescence is one of the most important periods of brain development in mammals. There is increasing evidence that some medicines during this period can affect brain and behavioral functions in adulthood. Silymarin (SM), a mixture of flavonolignans extracted from the milk thistle Silybum marianum, is known as a hepat...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Kosari-Nasab M,Rabiei A,Doosti MH,Salari AA

更新日期：2014-08-01 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：:Contingency management (CM) is associated with decreases in off-target drug and alcohol use during primary target treatment. The primary hypothesis for this trial was that targeting alcohol use or tobacco smoking would yield increased abstinence in the opposite, nontargeted drug. We used a 2 [CM vs. noncontingent cont...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Orr MF,Lederhos Smith C,Finlay M,Martin SC,Brooks O,Oluwoye OA,Leickly E,McDonell M,Burduli E,Barbosa-Leiker C,Layton M,Roll JM,McPherson SM

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study investigated the ability of drug-associated cues to reinstate extinguished responding following an extended period of withdrawal from cocaine self-administration. Rats self-administered cocaine (0.33mg/infusion) for 2 weeks of daily 3-h limited-access sessions under a fixed-interval (FI) schedule of ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Meil WM,See RE

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigeons were trained to discriminate 5mg/kg pentobarbital from saline under several multiple fixed-ratio fixed-interval schedules of food presentation. The following schedules were studied: multiple fixed-ratio 40 fixed-interval 18s (mult FR40 FI18), mult FR10 FI18s, mult FR10 FI180s and mult FR90 FI10s. After respond...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： McMillan DE,Hardwick WC

更新日期：1996-05-01 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：:Ultrasonic vocalizations are widely used to examine affective states in rats, yet relatively few studies explore the acoustic features of vocalizations, especially in relation to drug exposure, and no studies have explored alterations in acoustic features over time. The goal of this study was to examine nicotine- and ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Swalve N,Mulholland MM,Li M

更新日期：2019-08-01 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：:Previous data indicate that ethanol intoxication (3 g/kg, intragastric) on postnatal day (PD) 7 and 8 increases ethanol acceptance, but on PD 10 and 11 generates an aversion in infant rats. We investigated the participation of the opioid system in these effects. Subcutaneous administration of naloxone (1 or 10 mg/kg) ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Gabriela Chotro M,Arias C

更新日期：2007-11-01 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：: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：:Drugs that increase monoamine neurotransmission are effective in both anxiety and depression. The therapeutic effects of monoamine-based antidepressant drugs may involve indirect effects on neurotransmission through α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid glutamate receptors (AMPAR). Thus, chronic antidep...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Fitzpatrick CM,Larsen M,Madsen LH,Caballero-Puntiverio M,Pickering DS,Clausen RP,Andreasen JT

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fentanyl derivative mirfentanil has a novel set of behavioral effects in non-humans including low-efficacy opioid actions and non-opioid antinociceptive actions. This study evaluated the rate-decreasing effects of mirfentanil, morphine, naltrexone and ketamine in pigeons both prior to and during a period of chroni...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Gauthier CA,Bagley JR,Brockunier LL,France CP

更新日期：1999-09-01 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：: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 therapeutic potential of S1RA (E-52862), a selective sigma-1 receptor (σ1R) antagonist, has been explored in experimental neuropathic pain, but not in inflammatory pain models. The present study investigated the effect of the intraperitoneal administration of S1RA on the hind paw withdrawal response to thermal and...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Gris G,Merlos M,Vela JM,Zamanillo D,Portillo-Salido E

更新日期：2014-06-01 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：:Sensitization induced by repeated drug exposure has been proposed to increase 'wanting' the drug and to facilitate the transition from moderate to excessive drug intake. The present study examined the effects of cocaine-induced sensitization on ethanol-drinking behavior in male and female rats from different strains. ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Cailhol S,Mormède P

更新日期：2000-08-01 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：: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 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：:Relatively little is known about the role of the inhibitory neurotransmitter gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) in extinction of appetitively motivated tasks. The benzodiazepine (BZ) chlordiazepoxide (CDP) was administered during extinction and re-acquisition of lever pressing by mice following food reinforced discrete-tr...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Shaw D,Dawson GR,Reynolds DS,McCabe C,Leslie JC

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined associations between drinking and smoking prior to treatment (biochemically measured at baseline), alcohol and tobacco craving, and biochemical alcohol and tobacco use during the analog trial period. We conducted a secondary data analysis of a randomized clinical analog trial where participants wit...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Smith CL,Jenkins G,Burduli E,Tham P,Miguel A,Roll J,Mcpherson S

更新日期：2020-10-01 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：:The present study used the microdialysis technique to investigate the effect of treadmill running, without the use of an electric grid, on extracellular serotonin in the ventral hippocampus of male Lister hooded rat. Extracellular hippocampal serotonin was measured during 60min of treadmill running at 20m/min and comp...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Wilson WM,Marsden CA

更新日期：1996-01-01 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