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Michael S Smirnov

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Behavioral and temperature effects of delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol in human-relevant doses in rats.

Brain Research September 4, 2008 Michael S Smirnov, Eugene A. Kiyatkin

Marijuana smoking dramatically alters responses to various environmental stimuli. To study this phenomenon, we assessed how delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), a primary psychoactive ingredient of marijuana, affects locomotor and brain (nucleus accumbens or NAcc), muscle and skin temperature responses to natural arousing stimuli (one-minute tail-pinch and one-minute social interaction with...