Locomotor and Reinforcing Effects of Pentedrone, Pentylone and Methylone in Rats
bioRxiv Preprint Server July 21, 2017 Mehrak Javadi-Paydar, Jacques D. Nguyen, Sophia A. Vandewater et al. 7 citations preprint
The broad diversity of synthetic cathinone psychostimulant drugs that are available to users complicates research efforts to provide understanding of health risks. Second generation cathinones pentedrone and pentylone are distinguished from each other by the 3,4-methylenedioxy structural motif (which distinguishes methamphetamine from 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine) and each incorporates the...