PRECLINICAL STUDY: Atypical development of behavioural sensitization to 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, ‘Ecstasy’) in adolescent rats and its expression in adulthood: role of the MDMA chirality
Addiction Biology 2010 Nora Von Ameln, Andreas Von Ameln‐mayerhofer 14 citations
ABSTRACTDespite the great popularity of 3,4‐methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, Ecstasy) as a drug of abuse, not much is known about the detailed mechanisms of the acute and subchronic effects of the drug. There is especially a lack of information about the distinct behavioural effects of its optical isomers (enantiomers) R‐ and S‐MDMA compared with the racemic RS‐MDMA. For this purpose,...