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1-Methyl-4-phenyl-1,2,3,6-tetrahydropyridine (MPTP) disrupts social memory/recognition processes in the male mouse.

Male mice treated with MPTP or vehicle were tested for their ability to demonstrate a memory-recognition response as evaluated in a habituation-dishabituation task. Treatment with MPTP severely disrupted the male's habituation-dishabituation response…

Ablation of the hypothalamic arcuate-median eminence region reduces the concentration of vasoactive intestinal peptide in the anterior pituitary gland of male rats.

This study was designed to determine the influence of the hypothalamus on the content of vasoactive intestinal peptide (VIP) in the anterior pituitary. Disruption of the hypothalamic-pituitary connection was performed by ablating the arcuate-median…

Effects of testosterone upon MPTP-induced neurotoxicity of the nigrostriatal dopaminergic system of C57/B1 mice.

We have recently reported that treatment of gonadectomized female and male C57/B1 mice with the gonadal steroid hormone, estrogen, reduced nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurotoxicity resulting from the Parkinson's-like inducing agent

Comparison of the behavioral effects of ibogaine from three sources: mediation of discriminative activity.

Ibogaine is an alkaloid employed for its hallucinatory properties in West Central Africa which has been the subject of alleged efficacy as an aid in the interruption and treatment of chemical dependency. The major sources of the Schedule I agent are:…

Tags: *Discrimination (Psychology), 1993, Animal/*drug effects, Animals, Behavior, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, European journal of pharmacology, Gordon T L, Ibogaine/*pharmacology, Male, Rats, Schechter M D, Serotonin Receptor Agonists/pharmacology, Sprague-Dawley

Conditioned place preference produced by the psychostimulant cathinone.

Previous work has indicated that the psychostimulant cathinone produces a location preference in the conditioned place preference task. The present study expanded upon this earlier work by examining the dose-response nature of cathinone-induced…

Tags: 1993, Alkaloids/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Animals, Central Nervous System Stimulants/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Choice Behavior/drug effects, Conditioning (Psychology)/drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, European journal of pharmacology, Habituation, Male, Meehan S M, Motor Activity/*drug effects, Psychophysiologic, Rats, Schechter M D, Sprague-Dawley

Conditioned place aversion produced by dopamine release inhibition.

CGS 10746B, a dopamine release inhibitor with properties similar to the atypical antipsychotic clozapine, was assessed as to its behavioral properties using spontaneous locomotor activity and the conditioned place preference test. Rats conditioned…

Antiepileptics inhibit cortical N-methyl-D-aspartate-evoked [3H]norepinephrine efflux.

The antiepileptic drugs phenytoin, valproic acid and phenobarbital were examined for their ability to inhibit N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA)-stimulated [3H]norepinephrine efflux from rat brain cortical slices. All three drugs inhibited efflux at varying…

Tags: 1994, Animals, Anticonvulsants/*pharmacology, Brown L M, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, European journal of pharmacology, Female, Lee Y P, Male, N-Methylaspartate/*antagonists & inhibitors, Norepinephrine/*metabolism, Rats, Teyler T J

Sex differences in nitric oxide-mediated attenuation of vascular reactivity to vasopressin are abolished by gonadectomy.

In the rat thoracic aorta, contractile responses to vasopressin are two-fold higher in females than in males, primarily because nitric oxide-mediated attenuation of contraction is greater in males than in females. To determine the role of the gonadal…

Genetic selection for nicotine activity in mice correlates with conditioned place preference.

Genetically heterogenous stock (HS) mice are being used to develop lines which have differential locomotor response to subcutaneously administered (0.75 mg/kg) nicotine. These groups of nicotine-depressed, nicotine-activated or randomly bred control…

Tags: *Conditioning, 1995, Analysis of Variance, Animals, European journal of pharmacology, Female, Inbred Strains, Male, Meehan S M, Mice, Movement/*drug effects, Nicotine/*pharmacology, Operant, Schechter J B, Schechter M D

Gastroschisis: an 18-year review.

From 1972 to 1990, 69 cases of gastroschisis were treated at Akron Children's Hospital Medical Center. Eighty-one percent of these patients underwent primary closure of their abdominal wall defect. Thirteen of 69 patients (19%) required Silastic…

Tags: 1993, Abdominal Muscles/*abnormalities/surgery, Abnormalities, Boeckman C R, Cesarean Section, Congenital Abnormalities/surgery, Female, Humans, Infant, Journal of pediatric surgery, Klein R L, Male, Methods, Multiple, Newborn, Novotny D A, Postoperative Complications, Retrospective Studies

Discriminative effects of cocaethylene in rats trained to discriminate cocaine or ethanol.

Two groups of rats were trained to discriminate between the stimulus properties of either intraperitoneally administered 10.0 mg/kg cocaine or 60 mg/kg ethanol and its vehicle in a two-lever operant chamber. Once trained, both groups exhibited a…

Tags: 1994, Animals, Cocaine/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Interactions, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Life sciences, Male, Rats, Schechter M D

Isradipine produces neither a conditioned place preference nor aversion.

Isradipine (ISR) has been reported to block cocaine-induced conditioned place preference. Using this procedure, the pairing of this L-type calcium blocker, at doses of 2.5, 5.0 and 10 mg/kg, with a preferred (cue-distinct) environment was…

Tags: 1994, Animals, Calcagnetti D J, Cocaine/*pharmacology, Conditioning, Isradipine/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Life sciences, Male, Operant/*drug effects, Rats, Schechter M D, Sprague-Dawley

Effect of extreme elevations in venous pressure on reflection coefficient in the lung.

We determined whether the solvent drag reflection coefficient (sigma f) for total proteins of a canine perfused left lower lung lobe (LLL) preparation decreases at elevated venous pressures (Pv). We found that sigma f (estimated using the…

The aromatic amino acid decarboxylase inhibitor, NSD-1015, increases release of dopamine: response characteristics.

Addition of the aromatic amino acid decarboxylase inhibitor, NSD-1015 (10 microM), to Krebs'-Ringer phosphate (KRP) superfusion medium, significantly increased the release of dopamine in vitro from superfused corpus striatum tissue fragments of male…

Tags: *Aromatic Amino Acid Decarboxylase Inhibitors, 1992, 3, 4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid/metabolism, Animals, Brain/*drug effects/metabolism, Dluzen D, Dopamine/*metabolism, Hydrazines/*pharmacology, Male, McDermott J, Neuropharmacology, Rats, Reddy A, Sprague-Dawley

Lack of an inhibitory effect of hyperprolactinemia on androgen-dependent marking.

An experiment was performed to determine if hyperprolactinemia (chronically elevated serum prolactin levels), which inhibits testosterone-activated male sexual activity, also affects other androgen-dependent behaviors. Thus defecation and urine…

Place conditioning reveals the rewarding aspect of social interaction in juvenile rats.

Rewards, as diverse as food, sweetened solutions, copulation, electrical brain stimulation, and drugs abused by humans, have been shown to condition place preferences in rats. Juvenile rats will readily learn to traverse a T-maze for the opportunity…

Tags: *Conditioning, *Motivation, *Social Behavior, *Social Environment, *Social Isolation, 1992, Animals, Calcagnetti D J, Classical/drug effects, Female, Inbred Strains, Male, Motor Activity/drug effects, Physiology & behavior, Play and Playthings, Rats, Schechter M D, Scopolamine/pharmacology, Social Dominance

Role of olfactory bulb norepinephrine in the identification and recognition of chemical cues.

In this report the role of olfactory bulb (OB) norepinephrine (NE) in the identification and recognition of urinary chemical cues was examined. In Experiment 1, sexually naive adult male Sprague-Dawley rats were treated with either the noradrenergic…

Olfactory bulbectomy disrupts the expression of cocaine-induced conditioned place preference.

The role of the olfactory sense in the expression of cocaine-induced conditioned place preference (CPP) was examined in adult male rats (n = 35) of the N/Nih strain. Consistent with the scientific literature, rats were observed to significantly (p…

Age-related changes in monoamines within the olfactory bulbs of the Fischer 344 male rat.

In this report the olfactory bulbs (OB) were removed from 5-6 month, 15-16 month and 25-26 month male Fischer 344 rats and assayed for concentrations of monoamines and their metabolites using HPLC-EC. Concentrations of norepinephrine were…

Tags: 1996, 3, 4-Dihydroxyphenylacetic Acid/metabolism, Aging/*metabolism, Animals, Biogenic Monoamines/*metabolism, Dluzen D E, Dopamine/metabolism, Inbred F344, Male, Mechanisms of ageing and development, Olfactory Bulb/*metabolism, Rats, Serotonin/metabolism

Crossed renal ectopia without fusion associated with hydronephrosis in an infant.

The incidence of crossed "fused" renal ectopia has been reported at 1 in 7,500 autopsies, an incidence approximately ten times more frequent than crossed renal ectopia without fusion. Most cases remain asymptomatic and are incidentally encountered on…

Tags: 1991, Felzenberg J, Humans, Hydronephrosis/complications/*etiology, Infant, Kidney/*abnormalities, Male, Nasrallah P F, Ureteral Obstruction/complications/*etiology, Urology

Serotonin contributes to the spinal antinociceptive effects of morphine.

This study was designed to determine if morphine administered intrathecally (IT) interacts with serotonergic or noradrenergic nerve terminals in the spinal cord to produce analgesia on the spinally mediated tail-flick test. Male Sprague-Dawley rats…

Lack of neuroleptic-like activity of l-fenfluramine.

Rats were trained to differentiate between the dopaminergically mediated discriminative stimuli produced by intraperitoneal administration of 4.8 mg/kg cathine and its vehicle. Once trained, three doses of l-fenfluramine (1.0, 2.0 and 2.5 mg/kg) were…

Tags: 1991, Animals, Antipsychotic Agents/*pharmacology, Cues, Discrimination (Psychology)/drug effects, Dopamine Agents/pharmacology, Dopamine Antagonists, Fenfluramine/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Male, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Phenylpropanolamine/pharmacology, Rats, Schechter M D

Conditioned place aversion following the central administration of a novel dopamine release inhibitor CGS 10746B.

Numerous drugs of abuse that elevate brain extracellular dopamine concentrations by either increasing the firing rate of dopaminergic neurons or producing dopamine release have been shown to reliably condition a preference for place. If dopamine…

Tags: 1991, Animals, Antipsychotic Agents/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Avoidance Learning/*drug effects, Calcagnetti D J, Dopamine/*metabolism, Inbred Strains, Injections, Intraventricular, Male, Motor Activity/*drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Thiazepines/administration & dosage/*pharmacology

Direct microinjection of cathinone into the rat brain produces discriminative stimuli.

Rats were trained to discriminate IP administration of 800 micrograms/kg cathinone using a food-motivated, two-lever discrimination procedure. Following training, 800 micrograms/kg cathinone discrimination was produced (generalized) by lower…

Effect of altering dopamine or serotonin neurotransmitters upon cathinone discrimination.

Rats were trained to discriminate between the stimulus properties of 0.8 mg/kg l-cathinone and its vehicle in a two-lever, food-motivated operant task. Once trained, rats showed a dose-related decrease in discriminative performance when tested with…

Further evidence for the mechanisms that may mediate nicotine discrimination.

Rats were trained to discriminate the interoceptive stimuli produced by subcutaneously administered 0.4 mg/kg nicotine in a two-lever, food-motivated, operant task. Once criterion performance was attained, dose-response experiments indicated an ED50…

Tags: 1992, Animals, Calcium Channel Blockers/pharmacology, Dihydropyridines/pharmacology, Discrimination Learning, Dopamine/*metabolism, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Inbred Strains, Indoles/pharmacology, Isradipine, Male, Meehan S M, Nicotine/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Thiazepines/pharmacology, Tropisetron

Rats bred for differences in preference to cocaine: other behavioral measurements.

Cocaine has repeatedly been shown to produce conditioned place preference (CPP) in the rat. The present study employed the heterogenous N/Nih rat stock to produce a selectively bred rat line determined by individual place preference to a conditioning…

Tags: 1992, Animal/*drug effects, Animals, Behavior, Choice Behavior/*drug effects, Cocaine/*pharmacology, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Female, Inbred Strains, Male, Motor Activity/drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Species Specificity, Sprague-Dawley

Psychostimulant-induced activity is attenuated by two putative dopamine release inhibitors.

Centrally administered amphetamine (AMPH), cathinone, (CATH), or cocaine (COC) have each been shown to produce elevated activity in rats and this effect is dose responsive. The question remains whether these psychostimulants share a common mechanism…

Biphasic effects of ethanol tested with drug discrimination in HAD and LAD rats.

Seventh-generation selectively bred high-alcohol-drinking (HAD) and low-alcohol-drinking (LAD) rats were trained to make differential responses for ethanol (0.75 g/kg, IP) and saline vehicle, following postadministration intervals (PI) of 2 min…

Tags: 1992, Alcohol Drinking/genetics/*psychology, Animals, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Discrimination Learning/drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Ethanol/*pharmacology, Inbred Strains, Krimmer E C, Male, Pentobarbital/pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Serotonin Antagonists/pharmacology, Sleep/drug effects, Time Factors, Tropanes/pharmacology

Evidence for noradrenergic involvement in mediating the FG 7142 discriminative stimulus.

Rats were trained to discriminate the stimulus properties of the benzodiazepine receptor partial inverse agonist beta-carboline-3-carboxylate acid methyl amide (FG 7142) (5.0 mg/kg) or the alpha 2-adrenergic receptor antagonist 17…

Differential effects of nicotine but not cathinone on motor activity of P and NP rats.

The locomotor stimulatory effects of nicotine (0.4 and 0.8 mg/kg) and cathinone (0.5 and 1.0 mg/kg) were assessed in alcohol-preferring (P) and -nonpreferring (NP) rats. Whereas P rats demonstrated enhanced (0.8 mg/kg) or no change (0.4 mg/kg) in…

Tags: 1993, Alcohol Drinking/*psychology, Alkaloids/*pharmacology, Animals, Dextroamphetamine/pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/drug effects, Genotype, Gordon T L, Male, Meehan S M, Motor Activity/*drug effects, Nicotine/*pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Psychotropic Drugs/*pharmacology, Rats, Schechter M D

Cocaine discrimination is attenuated by isradipine and CGS 10746B.

The discriminative stimulus properties of cocaine are thought to be mediated by dopaminergic mechanisms that may be modulated by calcium ion influx and/or interact with 5-hydroxytryptamine3 (5-HT3) receptors. To test these possibilities, rats were…

P and NP rats respond differently to the discriminative stimulus effects of nicotine.

Rats selectively bred for ethanol preference, that is, alcohol-preferring (P) and -nonpreferring (NP) rats, were trained to discriminate the interoceptive stimuli produced by IP-administered 1,000 mg/kg ethanol (10% v/v) in a two-lever,…

Tags: 1993, Alcoholism/genetics, Animals, Behavioral, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects/physiology, Drug Tolerance/genetics, Ethanol/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Genetics, Gordon T L, Male, Meehan S M, Nicotine/administration & dosage/*pharmacology, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D

Discriminative stimulus properties of isradipine: effect of other calcium channel blockers.

This study constitutes the first report of a calcium channel blocker used as a drug capable of controlling differential responding in a drug-discrimination paradigm. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were trained to discriminate between intraperitoneally…

Tags: 1995, Animals, Calcium Channel Blockers/*pharmacology, Conditioning, Discrimination Learning/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Generalization, Isradipine/*pharmacology, Male, Operant/*drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Sprague-Dawley, Stimulus/*drug effects

Cocaethylene produces discriminative stimulus properties in the rat: effect of cocaine and ethanol coadministration.

Experimentally naive Sprague-Dawley male rats were trained to discriminate the interoceptive stimulus cues produced by either 10.0 mg/kg cocaine or 10.0 mg/kg cocaethylene from their saline vehicles. Although it required more sessions to train the…

Tags: 1995, Animals, Cocaine/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacokinetics/*pharmacology, Discrimination (Psychology)/*drug effects, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Ethanol/pharmacokinetics/*pharmacology, Male, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Reinforcement Schedule, Schechter M D, Sprague-Dawley

Serotonergic mediation of cocaine seizures in mice.

We used genetically heterogeneous HS mice to investigate the effects of drugs that alter brain concentrations of serotonin on cocaine-induced convulsions and lethality. The racemer of fenfluramine, which increases synaptic serotonin, was…

L-dopa reverses castration-induced disruption of dishabituation responses to female chemical cues in male rats.

In the present experiment, habituation/dishabituation behavioral tests were conducted to measure discriminatory olfactory recognition responses to chemical cues among control, castrated, and castrated+L-3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine (L-DOPA)-treated…

Role of dopamine D1 receptors in cocaine lethality.

One group of heterogeneously bred HS mice was assigned to test coadministration of the selective D1 antagonist SCH 23390 with a dose of cocaine (95 mg/kg) that was observed to produce 80% lethality, whereas a second group was tested by cotreatment…

Tags: 1995, Animals, Benzazepines/pharmacology, Cocaine/*toxicity, Dopamine Agonists/pharmacology, Dopamine D1/agonists/antagonists & inhibitors/*drug effects, Female, Inbred Strains, Lethal Dose 50, Male, Meehan S M, Mice, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Phenanthridines/pharmacology, Receptors, Schechter M D, Sex Characteristics

Cocaethylene produces conditioned place preference in rats.

The ability of cocaethylene to produce either a conditioned place preference or a conditioned place aversion was tested in rats. Twelve male rats were administered 10 mg/kg cocaethylene and confined to their nonpreferred side of the conditioned place…

Tags: 1995, Animals, Avoidance Learning/drug effects, Cocaine/*analogs & derivatives/pharmacology, Conditioning, Discrimination (Psychology)/drug effects, Male, Motor Activity/*drug effects, Operant/*drug effects, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Rats, Schechter M D, Sprague-Dawley

The lethal effects of ethanol and cocaine and their combination in mice: implications for cocaethylene formation.

The HS line of mice was used to determine the LD50 values for cocaine and ethanol, as well as for cocaethylene, the enzymatic product of their coadministration. The LD50 of cocaethylene was found to be significantly lower than that of cocaine, and…

Tags: 1995, Animals, Central Nervous System Depressants/*toxicity, Cocaine/*analogs & derivatives/metabolism/toxicity, Dopamine Uptake Inhibitors/*toxicity, Dose-Response Relationship, Drug, Drug Interactions, Ethanol/*toxicity, Female, Lethal Dose 50, Male, Meehan S M, Mice, Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior, Schechter M D, Sex Characteristics

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