Assessment of executive function using the Tinkertoy test.

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 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：:Does the effect of amphetamine on behavior (wheel running) differ depending on the functional role (operant, reinforcement) of that behavior? This study addressed this question using a multiple schedule of reinforcement in which wheel running served as reinforcement for lever pressing in one component and as operant b...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Belke TW,Pierce WD,Sexton CA

更新日期：2019-10-01 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：:The prefrontal cortex (PFC) plays a critical role in mediating executive functions and orchestrating the way in which we think, decide, and behave. Many studies have shown that PFC neurons not only play a major role in mediating behavioral responses to stress but are also sensitive to stress and undergo remodeling fol...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Bahari Z,Meftahi GH,Meftahi MA

更新日期：2018-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Flavonoids are natural substances obtained from plants. Most flavonoids cross the blood-brain barrier and exert a wide range of effects on the central nervous system. These actions have been attributed to the modulation of GABA-A receptors. Although motor systems in the central nervous system express a high density of...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Alatorre A,Oviedo-Chávez A,Villalobos N,Ríos A,Barrientos R,Querejeta E

更新日期：2015-02-01 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：: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：:The involvement of adrenoreceptor blocking drugs with the 5-HT(1A)-mediated discriminative stimulus was studied in pigeons trained to discriminate the 5-HT(1A) receptor agonist 8-OH-DPAT (0.3mg/kg) from saline. Cumulative dose-response curves were determined for 8-OH-DPAT, the beta-adrenergic antagonist pindolol, the ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Zhang L,Barrett JE

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the anxiolytic-like activity of alnespirone and buspirone, two 5-HT(1A) receptor agonists, in a modified Geller-Seifter conflict model, and examined the role of 5-HT(1A) receptors by studying whether WAY-100635, a selective antagonist at these receptors, blocked their effects. Administered s.c. 30 minutes b...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Cervo L,Munoz C,Bertaglia A,Samanin R

更新日期：2000-04-01 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：:The present experiments investigated the effects of excitatory amino acid antagonists, infused into core and shell subregions of the nucleus accumbens, on spatial behavior in the rat. A food-search task was used, in which animals learn a specific pattern of food gathering; duration of each trial (time taken to gather ...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Maldonado-Irizarry CS,Kelley AE

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although microdialysis is commonly understood as a method of sampling low molecular weight compounds in the extracellular compartment of tissues, this definition appears insufficient to specifically describe brain microdialysis of neurotransmitters. In fact, transmitter overflow from the brain into dialysates is criti...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Di Chiara G,Tanda G,Carboni E

更新日期：1996-11-01 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：:The effects of µ agonists fentanyl, methadone and morphine and kappa agonist U50,488 on behavior maintained by negative reinforcement were determined. Rats were trained on concurrent schedules in which pressing one lever postponed shock on a Sidman avoidance schedule and pressing the other lever produced signaled peri...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Galizio M,Robinson EG,Ordronneau C

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Behavioral flexibility or 'set-shifting' refers to the ability to modify ongoing behavior in response to changing goals or environmental contingencies. Impaired behavioral flexibility is associated with disorders such as schizophrenia and addiction. Hypofunction of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors has been implic...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Darrah JM,Stefani MR,Moghaddam B

更新日期：2008-05-01 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：: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：: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：:Neonatal ventral hippocampal lesions in the rat result in post-pubertal onset of behavioural abnormalities, modelling some aspects of schizophrenia. We further assessed the behavioural effects of neonatal lesions in rats in a variety of cognitive tasks and in the prepulse inhibition (PPI) of startle response paradigm....

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Le Pen G,Grottick AJ,Higgins GA,Martin JR,Jenck F,Moreau JL

更新日期：2000-06-01 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：:Animals neonatally depleted of dopamine show decreases in exploratory behaviour. As latent learning may depend on exploratory behaviour the present study was undertaken to examine the effects of neonatal dopamine depletion on latent learning. In two experiments dopamine was depleted neonatally, using 6-hydroxydopamine...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Archer T,Beninger RJ,Järbe TU,Seiden LS

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Individuals with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder tend to make risker choices during probabilistic-discounting procedures. Thus, how common attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder medications affect probabilistic discounting is of interest. In general, d-amphetamine increases risk-taking while atomoxetine has...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Ozga-Hess JE,Anderson KG

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Obesity and cigarette smoking are often cited separately as the top two preventable causes of death in the United States; however, little research has explored the factors associated with being both obese and a smoker. Delay discounting is a behavioral characteristic that may underlie both of these conditions/behavior...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Fields SA,Sabet M,Peal A,Reynolds B

更新日期：2011-06-01 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：:Both depression and cancer are related to a dysregulation of inflammatory and immune pathways. Indeed, depression is associated with increased expression of interferon-γ, interleukin-1β, and tumor necrosis factor α (TNF-α). In contrast, reductions of the activity of major histocompatibility complex protein molecules -...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Barreto FS,Chaves Filho AJM,de Araújo MCCR,de Moraes MO,de Moraes MEA,Maes M,de Lucena DF,Macedo DS

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Synthetic cathinone derivatives are commonly considered quasi-legal alternatives for stimulant drugs, such as cocaine and methamphetamine, but some derivatives are increasingly being detected in club drug formulations of Ecstasy or 'Molly' as substitutes for methylenedioxymethamphetamine (±-MDMA). Although several stu...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Gatch MB,Dolan SB,Forster MJ

更新日期：2020-06-01 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：:We recently developed a procedure to study fear incubation, in which rats given 100 tone-shock pairings over 10 days show low fear 2 days after conditioned fear training and high fear after 30 days. Notably, fear 2 days after 10 sessions of fear conditioning is lower than fear seen 2 days after a single session of fea...

journal_title：Behavioural pharmacology

authors： Pickens CL,Theberge FR

更新日期：2014-02-01 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