Interactions among the cannabinoids in the antagonism of the abdominal constriction response in the mouse.

abstract：RATIONALE:There is a requirement to ensure that UK armed forces are provided with the best possible medical countermeasures to prevent or mitigate the effects of exposure to nerve agents. When pretreatments are under consideration, it is of particular importance to ensure that they do not in themselves give rise to adv...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Muggleton NG,Bowditch AP,Crofts HS,Scott EA,Pearce PC

更新日期：2003-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:A growing number of studies suggest that gamma-aminobutyric acid type-B (GABA(B)) receptor agonists reduce alcohol use and craving. OBJECTIVES:This study was designed to further clarify behavioral mechanism(s) by which GABA(B) agonists may decrease alcohol reinforcement. METHODS:Male C57BL/6 J mice were tra...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Besheer J,Lepoutre V,Hodge CW

更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neuroimaging has been identified as a potentially powerful probe for the in vivo study of drug effects on the brain with utility across several phases of drug development spanning preclinical and clinical investigations. Specifically, neuroimaging can provide insight into drug penetration and distribution, target enga...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Doyle OM,Mehta MA,Brammer MJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:The antidepressant nortriptyline is a second-line pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation. Given that there is limited preclinical data available on the effects of nortriptyline on responses to nicotine, the present study sought to evaluate its effects on the reinforcing, discriminative stimulus (DS) and aversi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wing VC,Shoaib M

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shaking movements of the body, similar to that made by a dog when wet ('wet-dog shakes'), occur in rats in response to pharmacological stimuli and in response to stimuli associated with cold and skin irritation. In this study, shaking movements, elicited by a variety of stimuli, were inhibited by central administratio...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Wei ET

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Recent research highlights the need to extend our understanding of how exercise may aid smoking cessation, through exploration of different modes, intensity and duration of exercise. OBJECTIVES:The purpose of the study was to examine the effects of a 1-mile self-paced walk on different measures of urges to s...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Taylor AH,Katomeri M,Ussher M

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Delta-opioid agonists produce a number of behavioral effects, including convulsions, antinociception, locomotor stimulation, and antidepressant-like effects. The development of these compounds as treatments for depression is limited by their convulsive effects. Therefore, determining how to separate the convu...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Jutkiewicz EM,Rice KC,Traynor JR,Woods JH

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Direct activation of the cannabinoid CB1 receptor in the dorsolateral periaqueductal gray (dlPAG) inhibits anxiety- and panic-related behaviours in experimental animals. It has remained unclear, however, whether the local endocannabinoid signalling is recruited as a protective mechanism against aversive stimu...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Viana TG,Hott SC,Resstel LB,Aguiar DC,Moreira FA

更新日期：2015-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theory of acute tolerance to alcohol is proposed that includes two assumptions: 1) acute tolerance is a linear process with time, and 2) the slope of the line is a measure of the magnitude of the acute tolerance effect. Evidence that supports the validity of the theory is presented both from studies in which blood a...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Radlow R

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A prospective study of response to treatment with nortriptyline was carried out in a group of 14 inpatients with mixed symptoms of depression and dementia. Platelet membrane fluidity, as reflected by the fluorescence anisotropy of DPH labeled membranes, was determined for all 14 drug-free subjects prior to treatment b...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Zubenko GS,Reynolds CF 3rd,Perel JM,Decker C,Malinakova I

更新日期：1988-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES:Previous studies have demonstrated that sensitization to repeated doses of cocaine results in prolonged changes in glutamate transmission. However, little is known about long-term changes in glutamate transmission following a single dose of cocaine. Our laboratory has previously reported that a...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Kozell B,Meshul K

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study compared the efficacy of buprenorphine to methadone for decreasing cocaine use in patients with combined opioid and cocaine use. Participants (n = 51) were enrolled in a 26-week treatment program and randomly assigned to either buprenorphine or methadone. Dosing was double-blind and double-dummy. Patients w...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Strain EC,Stitzer ML,Liebson IA,Bigelow GE

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Pharmacokinetics of melatonin in children might differ from that in adults. OBJECTIVES:This study aims to establish a dose-response relationship for melatonin in advancing dim light melatonin onset (DLMO), sleep onset (SO), and reducing sleep onset latency (SOL) in children between 6 and 12 years with chroni...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： van Geijlswijk IM,van der Heijden KB,Egberts AC,Korzilius HP,Smits MG

更新日期：2010-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It was shown previously that behavioural effects of apomorphine (locomotor activation and stereotyped behaviour) can be conditioned when they are associated with well-defined environmental stimuli. In the present study, the hypothesis was tested that glutamatergic mechanisms play an important role either in formation ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Welsch-Kunze S,Kuschinsky K

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients taking lithium often report difficulties in concentration, memory, learning, and attention and many of these complaints are verified on psychometric testing. Laboratory tests of cognitive functions in healthy volunteers on chronic lithium demonstrate that disruptions in memory-learning processes are apparent ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Weingartner H,Rudorfer MV,Linnoila M

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The current study examined whether stimuli predictive of heroin availability were capable of inducing a relapse of drug-seeking behavior in an operant runway task. Olfactory stimuli (orange and almond food extract) served as discriminative cues about the availability (S+) or unavailability (S-) of heroin reinforcement...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： McFarland K,Ettenberg A

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic administration of the benzodiazepine (BZ) receptor agonist chlordiazepoxide (CDP) produced tolerance to its motor-impairing effects but little or no tolerance to its hypothermic effects or to its amnesic effects in the radial arm maze. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were pretreated for 14 days with CDP (25 mg/kg, b....

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Shumsky JS,Lucki I

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Peak saccadic eye movement velocity (SEV) and average smooth pursuit gain (SP) are reduced in a dose-dependent manner by diazepam and provide reliable, quantitative measures of benzodiazepine agonist effects. To evaluate the specificity of these eye movement effects for agents acting at the central GABA-benzodiazepine...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Hopfenbeck JR,Cowley DS,Radant A,Greenblatt DJ,Roy-Byrne PP

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Established social groups of talapoin monkeys show rank-related differences in aggressive, social and sexual behaviours and visual monitoring, as well as in endocrine and monoamine profiles. Here we describe the effects on these variables of an "anxiogenic drug", beta-carboline carboxylic acid ethyl ester (beta-CCE), ...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Vellucci SV,Herbert J,Keverne EB

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:3,4-Methylenedioxypyrovalerone (MDPV) and 3,4-methylenedioxy-N-methylcathinone (methylone) are synthetic drugs found in so-called "bath salts" products. Both drugs exert their effects by interacting with monoamine transporter proteins. MDPV is a potent uptake blocker at transporters for dopamine and norepinep...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Schindler CW,Thorndike EB,Goldberg SR,Lehner KR,Cozzi NV,Brandt SD,Baumann MH

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of vitamin B12 are compared to those of aspirin and 0.9% saline in three different experimental pain models in rats and mice; an electric shock test, the hot-plate test, and the phenylbenzoquinone writhing test. Neither cyanocobalamin nor hydroxocobalamin showed any antinociceptive activity in any of the t...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Eschalier A,Aumaître O,Decamps A,Dordain G

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained to discriminate between two compound stimulus arrays that included exteroceptive (ES) and interoceptive (IS) stimulus components. The ES components were illumination and tactile cues, and the IS components were produced by d-amphetamine (A) or Na pentobarbital (P) treatment (drug versus drug discrimi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Duncan PM

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Coping styles are fundamental characteristics of behavior that affect susceptibility to, and resilience during, mental and physical illness. Shifts from passive to active coping are considered therapeutic goals in many stress-related disorders, but the neural control of coping is poorly understood. Based on e...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Haller J,Goldberg SR,Pelczer KG,Aliczki M,Panlilio LV

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rats were trained to discriminate fenfluramine (1.0 mg/kg) from saline in a two-lever drug discrimination task. The dose-response curve for this discrimination was orderly with an ED50 of about one-half of the training dose (0.52 mg/kg). In substitution tests, indirect (p-chloroamphetamine) and direct (quipazine, MK-2...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： White FJ,Appel JB

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DL-2-amino-5-phosphonovaleric acid (AP-5), which blocks glutamatergic transmission at the NMDA-preferring receptor, was injected into the antero-dorsal striatum of rats. AP-5-induced behavioural changes were assessed i) using a stereotypy rating scale and ii) using an experimental chamber designed to quantify sniffing...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Schmidt WJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine depressed patients were treated with alaproclate, a selective 5-HT uptake inhibitor, for 3 weeks in a dose of 400 mg daily. The pupillary responses to tyramine, phenylephrine, and pilocarpine eye drops were measured on consecutive days before, after 1 week and after 3 weeks of treatment. The tyramine-induced mydr...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Thompson C,Checkley SA

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:In an animal model for vulnerability to drug abuse, rats that are more reactive to a novel environment (high responders, HRs) are more sensitive to behavioral effects of psychostimulants than are less reactive rats (low responders, LRs). In a companion article, we reported that HRs and LRs differ in sensitivi...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： White DA,Kalinichev M,Holtzman SG

更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examined whether the anticholinergic potency of the clinically superior antipsychotic drug clozapine contributes to clozapine's anatomically-selective functional inhibition of the mesolimbic dopamine (DA) system, using an electrical brain-stimulation reward (BSR) paradigm in rats that has been previously sh...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Gardner EL,Walker LS,Paredes W

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Triadimefon is a triazole fungicide that produces hyperactivity in both mice and rats similar to that seen following administration of compounds with catecholaminergic activity (e.g., d-amphetamine). To determine whether the triadimefon-induced hyperactivity is due to an action on CNS catecholaminergic systems, we eva...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Crofton KM,Boncek VM,MacPhail RC

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：RATIONALE:Drug-paired stimuli elicit drug craving and relapse in addicts and drug-seeking behavior in rats. The functional integrity of the basolateral amygdala (BLA) is necessary for reinstatement of cocaine-seeking behavior elicited by cocaine-conditioned stimuli, but not by cocaine itself. It is unclear, however, wh...

journal_title：Psychopharmacology

authors： Fuchs RA,See RE

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00