alpha-Ethyltryptamine (alpha-ET) as a discriminative stimulus in rats.
Pharmacology, biochemistry, and behavior October 1, 2006 Richard A Glennon, Tatiana Bondareva, Richard Young
alpha-Ethyltryptamine (etryptamine, alpha-ET) is a drug of abuse that first appeared on the clandestine market in the mid-1980s. Its pharmacological actions are poorly understood. In this investigation, it is reported for the first time that alpha-ET serves as a training drug in drug discrimination studies. Male Sprague-Dawley rats were trained to discriminate (30-min pretreatment time) 2.5...