Dissociation of head twitches and tremors during the study of interactions with 5-hydroxytryptophan in mice.
Journal of pharmacological methods June 1, 1985 P Martin, H Frances, P Simon 21 citations
Intraperitoneal injection of 5-hydroxytryptophan and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine is shown to provoke characteristic behaviors in mice that can be quantified. The two principal phenomena described here are head twitches and tremors. Tremors became more frequent when doses of the two substances studied were increased. Head twitches appeared at lower doses, but beyond a certain dose, they...