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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/0091-3057(90)90536-q" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">http://doi.org/10.1016/0091-3057(90)90536-q</a>
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623–626
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4
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37
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Functional consequences of fenfluramine neurotoxicity.
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Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior
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1990
1990-12
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Male; Animals; Rats; Discrimination Learning/drug effects; Reinforcement Schedule; Fenfluramine/*toxicity; Nervous System Diseases/*chemically induced/psychology; Dose-Response Relationship; Drug; Inbred Strains; Conditioning; Operant/drug effects
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Schechter M D
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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, 1.0 and 1.5 mg/kg fenfluramine tested 20 min after IP administration produced dose-responsive discrimination performance. Subsequently, noncontingent twice-a-day administrations of 1 ml/kg saline were made for 4 days and the dose-effect relationship redetermined on the 13th to 15th day after initiation of the chronic saline regimen. Results of these dose-response experiments indicated that there was no significant effect upon fenfluramine discrimination after multiple saline injections or after 10 days without training. Following four days of retraining, 6.25 mg/kg fenfluramine twice-a-day for four days was followed 10 days later by another dose-response determination. This purportedly neurotoxic regimen of fenfluramine significantly increased the rats' ability to discriminate fenfluramine. These results suggest the possibility that chronic release of serotonin or selective damage to serotonin-containing neurons produced by fenfluramine may lead to postsynaptic supersensitivity as manifested by the functionally increased discriminative performance observed.
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<a href="http://doi.org/10.1016/0091-3057(90)90536-q" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">10.1016/0091-3057(90)90536-q</a>
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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