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A comparative analysis of monoaminergic involvement in the spinal antinociceptive action of DAMPGO and DPDPE.

The antinociceptive properties of intrathecally (i.t.) administered [D-Ala2,

Tags: 1989, 5)-, Ala(2)-MePhe(4)-Gly(5)-, Amines – Physiology, Anesthetics – Pharmacodynamics, Anesthetics/*pharmacology, Animals, Biogenic Monoamines/*physiology, Cell Surface – Drug Effects, Cell Surface – Physiology, Crisp T, D-Penicillamine (2, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Enkephalin, Enkephalins, Enkephalins – Pharmacodynamics, Enkephalins/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Injections, Intraspinal, Male, Naloxone – Pharmacodynamics, Naloxone/pharmacology, Opioid/drug effects/*physiology, Pain, Pain – Metabolism, Pain/*metabolism, Rats, Receptors, Spanos L J, Spinal, Spinal Cord – Drug Effects, Spinal Cord – Metabolism, Spinal Cord – Physiopathology, Spinal Cord/drug effects/metabolism/*physiopathology, Stafinsky J L

Acute and subchronic effects of methylenedioxymethamphetamine [(+/-)MDMA] on locomotion and serotonin syndrome behavior in the rat.

Specific behaviors comprising the serotonin syndrome (low body posture, forepaw treading, headweaving) and the autonomic signs of piloerection and salivation were determined and analyzed with locomotor activity in response to MDMA at three doses…

The role of dopamine and serotonin receptors in the mediation of the ethanol interoceptive cue.

The drug discrimination paradigm was used to evaluate the contribution of dopamine or serotonin receptors in the mediation of the stimulus properties of ethanol. Briefly, rats were trained to discriminate between ethanol (600 mg/kg, IP) and water…

Tags: 1988, Animals, Conditioning, Cues, Discrimination (Psychology)/*physiology, Dopamine/drug effects/*physiology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Operant/physiology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Receptors, Schechter M D, Serotonin/drug effects/*physiology, Signs S A

Characterization of a homogeneous paraprotein from a horse with spontaneous multiple myeloma syndrome.

A novel myeloma paraprotein has been isolated from a horse with a lymphoid tumor. The protein was a euglobulin and consequently was readily isolated from serum in pure form and high yield by simple dilution in distilled water. The purified intact…

Tags: 1987, Animals, Dobblestein T N, Horse Diseases/*immunology, Horses/immunology, Immunoglobulin Light Chains/*isolation & purification, Jacobs R M, Kehoe J M, Male, Multiple Myeloma/immunology/*veterinary, Myeloma Proteins/*isolation & purification, Seide R K, Veterinary immunology and immunopathology

Use of TFMPP stimulus properties as a model of 5-HT1B receptor activation.

Recent evidence indicates that when 1-(3-trifluoromethylphenyl)piperazine (TFMPP) is used as a training drug in the drug discrimination paradigm it produces a stimulus effect that is site-selective at the 5-HT1B receptor. The present study sought to…

Tags: 1988, Animals, Biological, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Male, Models, Norfenfluramine/pharmacology, Pharmaceutical Vehicles, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Piperazines/*pharmacology, Rats, Receptors, Schechter M D, Serotonin/*drug effects/physiology, Serotonin/pharmacology

Trends in place preference conditioning with a cross-indexed bibliography;

The purpose of this work is to present a perspective of the conditioned place preference (CPP) test by offering an overview of the empirical research from

Tags: *Choice Behavior, *Conditioning, 1993, Animals, Calcagnetti D J, Experimental/*trends, Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews, Operant, Psychology, Schechter M D

Time-dependent effect of ethanol upon discrimination behavior.

The discriminative stimulus properties produced by ethanol were employed to demonstrate differences in discriminative performance over time in rats trained at different postinjection times. Thus, one group of rats was trained to discriminate between…

Tags: 1989, Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), Animals, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Rats, Schechter M D, Time Factors

Tetrahydro-beta-carboline may produce its stimulus effects via 5HT1B receptors.

To further clarify the role of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5HT) in the behavioral effects of tetrahydro-beta-carboline, male rats were trained to discriminate either 20 mg/kg THBC from its vehicle (n = 10) or 2.0 mg/kg fenfluramine from saline (n = 5). THBC…

Tags: 1987, Animals, Carbolines/*pharmacology, Discrimination Learning/drug effects, Inbred Strains, Male, Metergoline/pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Piperazines/pharmacology, Rats, Receptors, Schechter M D, Serotonin Antagonists/pharmacology, Serotonin/*metabolism

Temporal differences in behavioral effect of fenfluramine and norfenfluramine.

Ten male rats were trained to discriminate the anorectic drug d,l-fenfluramine (2.0 mg/kg intraperitoneally administered) from its vehicle using a food-reinforced (fixed-ratio 10 schedule) two-lever operant task. Once learned, the fenfluramine…

Tags: 1990, Animal/*drug effects, Animals, Behavior, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fenfluramine/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Injections, Intraperitoneal, Male, Norfenfluramine/*pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Stereoisomerism

Temporal parameters of cathinone, amphetamine and cocaine.

Rats were trained to discriminate intraperitoneally administered 0.8 mg/kg

Tags: 1989, Alkaloids/*pharmacology, Amphetamines/*pharmacology, Animals, Cocaine/*pharmacology, Conditioning, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Inbred Strains, Male, Operant/*drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Task Performance and Analysis, Time Factors

Stability of the stimulus properties of drugs over time.

Three separate groups of rats were trained to discriminate the stimulus effects of either 600 mg/kg ethanol (n = 5), 0.8 mg/kg d-amphetamine (n = 8) or 1.0 mg/kg

Tags: *Discrimination (Psychology), 1989, Animals, Boja J W, Dextroamphetamine/*pharmacology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Tolerance, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Piperazines/*pharmacology, Rats, Schechter M D, Signs S A

Serotonergic-dopaminergic mediation of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, "ecstasy").

A series of three experiments were conducted to investigate the possible serotonergic and dopaminergic mediation of the discriminative stimulus properties of the "designer" drug MDMA. In Experiment 1, rats trained to discriminate 1.5 mg/kg (+/-)-MDMA…

Rats become acutely tolerant to cathine after amphetamine or cathinone administration.

The drug discrimination paradigm was used to evaluate in rats the ability of the discriminate response to either 0.8 mg/kg d-amphetamine or 0.8 mg/kg l-cathinone to generalize to 2.4-6.0 mg/kg of the active cathinone metabolite d-norpseudoephedrine,…

Tags: 1990, Alkaloids/*pharmacology, Amphetamine/*pharmacology, Animals, Antipsychotic Agents/pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Tolerance, Inbred Strains, Male, Phenylpropanolamine/*pharmacology, Psychopharmacology, Psychotropic Drugs/*pharmacology, Rats, Schechter M D, Thiazepines/pharmacology

Potentiation of cathinone by caffeine and nikethamide.

The drug discrimination paradigm was employed to evaluate the effect of coadministration of both caffeine and nikethamide upon the discrimination of a low dose of cathinone. In rats trained to discriminate between 0.8 mg/kg l-cathinone and its…

Tags: 1989, Alkaloids/*pharmacology, Animals, Caffeine/*pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Drug Combinations/pharmacology, Drug Synergism, Inbred Strains, Male, Nikethamide/*pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Phenylpropanolamine/pharmacology, Psychotropic Drugs/*pharmacology, Rats, Salicylates/pharmacology, Schechter M D

Lack of generalization of nisoxetine with amphetamine in the rat.

Rats were trained to discriminate between the stimulus properties of intraperitoneally administered d-amphetamine (0.8 mg/kg) and its vehicle in a two-lever, food-motivated operant task. Once trained, doses of the norepinephrine reuptake inhibiting…

Tags: *Discrimination (Psychology), 1988, Animals, Boja J W, Conditioning, Dextroamphetamine/*pharmacology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fluoxetine/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Norepinephrine/antagonists & inhibitors, Operant/*drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Reference Values, Schechter M D

Interaction of ethanol and tetrahydro-beta-carboline (THBC) in a discriminative task.

Rats (n = 10) were trained to discriminate between ethanol (600 mg/kg, IP) and its vehicle, or between THBC (20 mg/kg) and its vehicle in a two-lever food-motivated operant task. Once the discriminative training criterion was attained, rats in each…

Tags: 1988, Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.), Animal/drug effects, Animals, Behavior, Carbolines/*pharmacology, Conditioning (Psychology)/drug effects, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Interactions, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Rats, Schechter M D, Signs S A

Functional consequences of fenfluramine neurotoxicity.

Male Sprague-Dawley rats were trained to discriminate the anorectic drug d,l-fenfluramine (2.0 mg/kg intraperitoneally administered) from its vehicle using a food-motivated (fixed-ratio 10 schedule) two-lever operant task. Once trained, doses of 0.5,…

Tags: 1990, Animals, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning/drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fenfluramine/*toxicity, Inbred Strains, Male, Nervous System Diseases/*chemically induced/psychology, Operant/drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Reinforcement Schedule, Schechter M D

Effect of learned behavior upon conditioned place preference to cathinone.

The purpose of this study was to examine whether first training rats to discriminate the stimulus cues produced by an indirect dopamine agonist, cathinone, would influence a subsequent test of preference. The conditioned place preference (CPP)…

Tags: 1991, Alkaloids/*pharmacology, Animals, Antipsychotic Agents/pharmacology, Conditioning, Cues, Discrimination (Psychology)/drug effects, Discrimination Learning/drug effects, Dopamine/drug effects, Dopamine/physiology, Inbred Strains, Learning/*physiology, Male, Operant/*drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Receptors, Schechter M D, Thiazepines/pharmacology

Effect of serotonin depletion by p-chlorophenylalanine upon discriminative behaviours.

1. Para-chlorophenylalanine (p-CPA), a competitive inhibitor of the serotonin (5-HT) synthesis enzyme tryptophan hydroxylase, was administered to rats at a dosage (100 mg/kg daily for 3 days) that depletes 5-HT. 2. Different groups of these rats were…

Tags: 1991, Animals, Brain Chemistry/drug effects, Central Nervous System Stimulants/pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Dopamine/physiology, Fenclonine/*pharmacology, General pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Rats, Schechter M D, Serotonin Antagonists/*pharmacology, Serotonin/*physiology

Effect of repeated administrations upon cathinone discrimination and conditioned place preference.

1. Eight male rats were trained to discriminate the interoceptive cues produced by 0.8 mg/kg l-cathinone in a two-lever, food-motivated operant task and they were, subsequently, tested for preference to cathinone in a conditioned place preference…

Tags: 1991, Alkaloids/*pharmacology, Animals, Conditioning, Department of Anatomy & Neurobiology, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Drug Tolerance/physiology, General pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, McBurney D, NEOMED College of Medicine, Operant/*drug effects, Psychotropic Drugs/*pharmacology, Rats, Schechter M D

Effect of MDMA neurotoxicity upon its conditioned place preference and discrimination.

Experiments were conducted to investigate the functional consequences of a neurotoxic regimen of MDMA administration upon two behaviors, conditioned place preference and drug discrimination. Rats were trained to discriminate 1.5 mg/kg MDMA from its…

Dopaminergic nature of acute cathine tolerance.

Cathine is a psychoactive constituent in the leaves of the Khat shrub which are habitually ingested for their stimulatory effects in many parts of the world. Rats were trained to discriminate the stimulus effect of intraperitoneally administered 4.8…

Tags: 1990, Alkaloids/pharmacology, Animals, Antipsychotic Agents/pharmacology, Appetite Depressants/*pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/drug effects, Discrimination Learning/drug effects, Dopamine/*physiology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Tolerance, Generalization (Psychology)/drug effects, Inbred Strains, Male, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Phenylpropanolamine/*pharmacology, Rats, Schechter M D, Thiazepines/pharmacology

Discriminative stimulus effect of phenylephrine.

Rats were trained to discriminate phenylephrine in a two-lever, food-motivated operant task by increasing the i.p. administered training dose from 0.8 to 2 mg/kg. Stable discrimination to 2 mg/kg phenylephrine was established and testing of 0.5-2.5…

Comparison of anorectic drugs in rats trained to discriminate between satiation and deprivation.

Eight male rats were trained to discriminate between the internal states produced by food deprivation of 3 hours (satiation) and that produced by food deprivation of 27 hours duration (deprivation). One lever, in a two-lever operant chamber, had to…

Tags: *Food Deprivation, 1990, Amphetamine/*pharmacology, Analysis of Variance, Animals, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Fenfluramine/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Life sciences, Male, Norfenfluramine/*pharmacology, Rats, Satiation/*drug effects, Schechter M D

CGS 10746B is able to attenuate the effects of amphetamine: further evidence for dopaminergic mediation.

Previous results indicate that agents which either decreases synthesis or block postsynaptic dopamine receptors will attenuate the discriminative stimulus produced by d-amphetamine. CGS 10746B has been reported to decrease dopamine release without…

Tags: 1988, Alkaloids/pharmacology, Animals, Antipsychotic Agents/*pharmacology, Apomorphine/pharmacology, Boja J W, Cocaine/pharmacology, Conditioning, Dextroamphetamine/antagonists & inhibitors/*pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Dopamine/*physiology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Male, Operant/drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Thiazepines/*pharmacology

Advantages and disadvantages of a rapid method to train drug discrimination.

In an effort to reduce the often extensive period of time needed to train rats to discriminate between a drugged and nondrugged state, a fast training regimen was employed with 1.5 mg/kg 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA) used as the training…

Tags: 1988, 3, 4-methylenedioxyamphetamine, 4-Methylenedioxyamphetamine/analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Amphetamines/*pharmacology, Animals, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Tolerance, Male, Methods, N-Methyl-3, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D

Rhabdomyolysis in antiquity. From ancient descriptions to scientific explication.

Tags: *Quail, 1998, Ancient, Animals, Foodborne Diseases/complications/*history, Geib J D, Hemlock/poisoning, History, Humans, Meat/history/poisoning, Medieval, Ognibene A J, Plants, Rhabdomyolysis/etiology/*history, Rutecki G W, The Pharos of Alpha Omega Alpha-Honor Medical Society. Alpha Omega Alpha, Toxic

Spondyloarthropathy in gorillas.

Tags: *Gorilla gorilla, 1989, Animals, Arthritis/pathology/veterinary, Bone and Bones/pathology, Female, Joint Diseases/diagnostic imaging/pathology/*veterinary, Male, Radiography, Rothschild B M, Sacroiliac Joint, Seminars in arthritis and rheumatism, Spinal Diseases/pathology/*veterinary, Woods R J

Origins of spondyloarthropathy in Perissodactyla.

OBJECTIVE: Spondyloarthropathy has clearly been documented as not limited in occurrence to humans. Transmammalian in nature, it is of interest to understand the antiquity, and perhaps the origins, of this disorder in animal groups sufficiently…

The Dunlop-Dottridge Memorial Lecture. Paleopathology as a clinical science with implications for patient care, education, and research.

Tags: *Paleopathology, 1996, Ancient, Animals, History, Humans, Rheumatic Diseases/*history, Rothschild B M, The Journal of rheumatology

On the antiquity of treponemal infection.

Documentation of the treponemal etiology of reactive bone formation in a pleistocene bear supports unprecedented antiquity of treponemal bone infections. The spectrum and implications of osseous treponemal disease in the New and Old World are…

Tags: 15th Century, 1989, Ancient, Animals, History, Humans, Medical hypotheses, Rothschild B M, Syphilis/*history, Ursidae, Yaws/*history

Vaccines–all things considered. Part I. 2-3 December 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Tags: 2005, Animals, California, Humans, IDrugs : the investigational drugs journal, Pharmaceutical/methods/*trends, Rosenthal Kenneth S, Technology, Vaccination/methods/*trends, Vaccines/*therapeutic use

Vaccines-all things considered. Part II. 2-3 December 2004, San Francisco, CA, USA.

Tags: 2005, Animals, Biotechnology/economics/methods/trends, California, Humans, IDrugs : the investigational drugs journal, Pharmaceutical/*economics/methods/trends, Rosenthal Kenneth S, Technology, Vaccination/*economics/methods/trends, Vaccines/*economics/*therapeutic use

Herpes simplex virus type 1 penetration initiates mobilization of cell surface proteins.

Changes in membrane structure resulting from herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV-1) penetration were detected using fluorescence photobleaching recovery methods. The effect could be blocked by inhibitors of viral and cellular processes involved in virus…

Influence of substance P on carotid sinus nerve baro- and chemoreceptor activity in rabbits.

Substance P (SP) is abundant in the carotid sinus nerve (CSN) and has been implicated in baro- and chemoreceptor reflexes. We examined the effect of SP on blood pressure, heart rate, phrenic nerve activity, hindlimb perfusion pressure, and cardiac…

Tags: 1990, Animals, Blood Pressure/*drug effects, Carotid Sinus/*innervation, Chemoreceptor Cells/*drug effects, Female, Hemodynamics/drug effects, Hindlimb/blood supply, Male, Myocardial Contraction/drug effects, Peptides, Phrenic Nerve/drug effects, Pressoreceptors/*drug effects, Qu L, Rabbits, Stuesse S L, Substance P/*pharmacology

Natural cytotoxins in human plasma: isolation and characterization of phospholipids associated with cytotoxic lipoproteins.

Most of the heat-stable natural cytotoxins in normal human plasma were fractionated by gel filtration into two active fractions: the alpha

Tags: 1987, Animals, Cell Line, Chromatography, Cytotoxins/*blood, Koo P H, Lipoproteins/*blood, Mice, Molecular toxicology, Molecular Weight, Phospholipids/*blood, Prezioso J A, Thin Layer, Type C Phospholipases/pharmacology, Ultracentrifugation

Excessive sympathetic nervous system activity decreases myocardial contractility.

The objective of this study was to determine whether myocardial contractility is depressed by intense activation of the sympathetic nervous system. A massive sympathetic discharge was produced by injecting veratrine or sodium citrate into the…

Effect of intracoronary infusion of histamine or compound 48/80 on coronary vascular permeability and myocardial fluid balance.

This study was undertaken to determine if coronary vascular permeability (CVP) increases and if myocardial edema develops in the canine heart after local exposure to histamine. Histamine (50 or 15 micrograms/min) or compound 48/80 (0.1-0.2 mg/kg) was…

Tags: 1991, Animals, Blood Pressure/drug effects, Coronary Circulation/*drug effects, Dogs, Female, Histamine/*administration & dosage, Infusions, Intra-Arterial, Lymph/drug effects, Male, Microvascular research, Myocardium/*metabolism, p-Methoxy-N-methylphenethylamine/*administration & dosage, Pilati C F, Water-Electrolyte Balance/*drug effects

Stabilization of clathrin coated vesicles by amantadine, tromantadine and other hydrophobic amines.

Amantadine and related compounds stabilized the structure of purified pig brain clathrin coated vesicles (CCV) at biologically relevant concentrations. Incubation of purified CCV for 30 min at 25 degrees C or 37 degrees C caused the release of…

Tags: 1991, Amantadine/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Amines/*pharmacology, Animals, Brain/metabolism, Cell-Membrane/drug effects/*metabolism, Clathrin/*metabolism, Coated Pits, FEBS letters, Kinetics, Phonphok Y, Rosenthal K S, Structure-Activity Relationship, Swine

A critical period for long-term potentiation in the developing rat visual cortex.

The in vitro rodent visual cortical slice preparation demonstrates a critical period for long-term potentiation (LTP). Current source density (CSD) analysis reveals peak potentiation of both supra-(layers II-III) and infragranular (layers V) layers…

Tags: 1988, Aging, Animals, Brain research, Electric Stimulation, In Vitro Techniques, Neuronal Plasticity, Newborn, Perkins A T 4th, Rats, Teyler T J, Visual Cortex/*growth & development/physiology

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