Discriminative‐stimulus effects of 3,4‐methylenedioxy‐N‐methylamphetamine (MDMA) and a novel MDMA quatenary analog
The FASEB Journal April 1, 2013 Jonathan M. Slezak, Melanie Mueller, George A. Ricaurte et al.
MDMA (ecstasy), popularized as a “club drug,” is a psychoactive and abused substance. It is often assumed that the behavioral effects of MDMA are due to central actions, though this has not been tested. Using a quaternary analog of MDMA (qMDMA) we tested that assumption by training male Sprague‐Dawley rats (n = 6) to discriminate intraperitoneal (i.p.) injections of 1.7 mg/kg of MDMA HCl from...