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

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

Schechter M D

Life sciences

1990

1905-06

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 be pressed to receive reinforcement in the satiation state, whereas pressing the other lever was required when the rat was in the deprivation state. Once the rats were trained, increasing the number of hours of food deprivation, from 1 to 48 hours, resulted in more deprivation-appropriate lever responses in the two-lever operant task. Administration of doses of fenfluramine (0.5-1.5 mg.kg), its active metabolite norfenfluramine (0.25-1.0 mg/kg) or d-amphetamine (0.5-1.5 mg/kg) produced a dose-responsive decrease in deprivation-appropriate responses when each drug/dose was injected (i.p.) 15 min prior to deprivation (27 hours) testing. Norfenfluramine was 1.5 times more potent than fenfluramine which was 1.5 times more potent than amphetamine.

Male; Animals; Rats; Analysis of Variance; Discrimination Learning/*drug effects; Amphetamine/*pharmacology; *Food Deprivation; Fenfluramine/*analogs & derivatives/*pharmacology; Norfenfluramine/*pharmacology; Satiation/*drug effects; Dose-Response Relationship; Drug; Inbred Strains

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