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Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior

ISSN 1873-5177, 0091-3057

325 papers in the library · 3,738 citations · publishing 1975-2026

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The 5HT2 antagonist pirenperone reverses disruption of FR-40 by hallucinogenic drugs.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior May 1985 David J. Mokler, K W Stoudt, Richard H. Rech

Indolealkylamine and phenethylamine hallucinogens disrupted responding maintained under a fixed-ratio 40 (FR-40) schedule of reinforcement. LSD, DMT, mescaline and DOM produced dose-dependent decreases in number of reinforcers and increases in 10-sec periods of non-responding (pause-intervals). The 5HT agonist quipazine, as well as the LSD congener lisuride, altered response patterns in a...

Altered responses to serotonergic agents in Fawn-Hooded rats.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior March 1, 1985 Gary A. Gudelsky, J I Koenig, Herbert Y. Meltzer 54 citations

The incidence of "wet dog" shakes elicited by quipazine, the hyperthermic response induced by 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5MeODMT) and the hypothermic response to 8-hydroxy-2-(di-n-propylamino) tetralin (8-OH-DPAT) were compared in rats of the Fawn-Hooded (FH) and Sprague-Dawley (SD) strains. The behavioral responses of FH rats to quipazine and 5MeODMT were significantly greater than...

Differential effects of phencyclidine and MDA on complex operant behavior in monkeys.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior September 1984 D M Thompson, J M Moerschbaecher

In one component of a multiple schedule, patas monkeys acquired a different four-response chain each session by responding sequentially on three keys in the presence of four geometric forms (learning). In the other component, the four-response chain was the same each session (performance). The response chain in each component was maintained by food presentation under a fixed-ratio schedule....

Serotonergic involvement in phencyclidine-induced behaviors.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior September 1984 Toshitaka Nabeshima, K Yamaguchi, M Hiramatsu et al.

Administration of 5-10 mg/kg of phencyclidine (PCP) caused stereotyped behaviors including sniffing, backpedalling, head weaving and turning in rats. The PCP-induced stereotyped behaviors (backpedalling, head weaving and turning) were attenuated by serotonin (5-HT) depleters [reserpine, p-chlorophenylalanine, p-chloroamphetamine (PCA)] and 5-HT receptor antagonist (cyproheptadine). PCP-induced...

Naloxone alters the effects of LSD, DOM and quipazine on operant behavior of rats.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior September 1984 David J. Mokler, Randall L. Commissaris, J W Henck et al.

Administration of the indolealkylamine hallucinogen d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), the phenethylamine hallucinogen 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM) and the putative 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) agonist quipazine all produced a dose-dependent decrease in fixed ratio (FR-40) response rates and a concomitant increase in the number of 10-second pause intervals. Although naloxone (4.0...

Behavioral effects of intracerebroventricular administration of LSD, DOM, mescaline or lisuride

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior August 1, 1984 David J. Mokler, Richard H. Rech 17 citations

The effects on a fixed ratio-40 (FR-40) operant behavior of intracerebroventricular (ICV) administration of the hallucinogens lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM), mescaline or the non-hallucinogenic LSD-analogue lisuride were compared with intraperitoneal (IP) administration. Infusion of LSD (8.5 to 34 micrograms) into the left lateral ventricle produced a...

Pharmacological potency of R- and S-3'-hydroxy-delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol: additional structural requirement for cannabinoid activity.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior July 1984 B R Martin, M J Kallman, G F Kaempf et al.

The pharmacological potency of R- and S-3'-hydroxy-delta 9-tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) was compared to that of delta 9-THC as well as R/S-3'-OH-delta 9-THC. The S-isomer was found to be considerably more potent than the R-isomer in producing hypoactivity in mice, static-ataxia in dogs, and in generalization testing in rats trained to discriminate delta 9-THC from vehicle. S-3'-OH-delta 9-THC was...

Further investigation of the discriminative stimulus properties of MDA.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior April 1984 Richard A Glennon, R Young

Rats trained to discriminate either (+)-amphetamine or (+/-)-MDA from saline in a two-lever drug discrimination task, were used to study the stimulus effects of MDA and its two optical isomers. Amphetamine-stimulus generalization occurred to S(+)-MDA, but not to its enantiomer R(-)-MDA. This, coupled with our earlier finding of DOM-stimulus generalization to R(-)-MDA but not to S(+)-MDA,...

Phencyclidine-like behavioral effects of 2-methyl-3,3-diphenyl-3-propanolamine (2-MDP).

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior February 1984 A H Tang, A A Cangelosi, R A Code et al.

2-Methyl-3,3-diphenyl-3-propanolamine (2-MDP) produced effects in animals similar to those produced by the dissociative anesthetics such as phencyclidine (PCP). Specifically, it shared the discriminative stimulus properties of PCP in rats trained to discriminate PCP (1 mg/kg) from saline; at higher doses, it disrupted brightness discrimination and stimulated locomotor activities in rats trained...

The stimulus properties of para-methoxyamphetamine: a nonessential serotonergic component.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior February 1984 Jerrold C Winter

A group of six rats was trained to discriminate the effects of para-methoxyamphetamine (PMA; 3 mg/kg, 15 min pretreatment time) and saline in a two-lever choice task using a fixed ratio 10 schedule of water reinforcement. Stimulus control was assumed to be present when 80% or more of the first ten responses were appropriate for the treatment condition on each of five consecutive days. PMA...

Serotonin receptor activation in rats previously deprived of REM sleep.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior April 1, 1983 R Santos, E A Carlini 25 citations

The effects of serotonin precursors (L-5-hydroxytryptophan and L-tryptophan, with or without MAO inhibitors) and of agonists (quipazine and 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine-MeO-DMT) were studied in 3 day REM-deprived or control rats, by recording the presence of the serotonin syndrome and the number of head shakes. The REM sleep-deprived rats showed a larger incidence of the serotonin syndrome...

Effects of apomorphine, clonidine or 5-methoxy-NN-dimethyltryptamine on approach and escape components of lateral hypothalamic and mesencephalic central gray stimulation in two inbred strains of mice.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 1983 P Cazala, A M Garrigues 11 citations

The effects of intraperitoneal injections of increasing doses of apomorphine, clonidine or 5-methoxy-NN-dimethyltryptamine (5-m-DMT) on approach and escape reactions induced by lateral hypothalamic (LH) or mesencephalic central gray (CG) stimulation were compared in BALB/c and DBA/2 mice. Apomorphine increased both the approach latency for LH stimulation and the escape latency for CG...

Comparison of behavioral properties of di- and tri-methoxyphenylisopropylamines.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior October 1982 Richard A Glennon, R Young

Prominent among the class of hallucinogenic phenylisopropylamines is the 2,5-dimethoxy substitution pattern; this pattern has long been recognized as being an important feature of the more potent agents within this class. The purpose of this present study was to explore the behavioral properties of a series of methoxylated phenylisopropylamines in order to determine the effect of other...

Anorexia and hyperphagia produced by five pharmacologic classes of hallucinogens.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior September 1, 1982 D B Vaupel, E C Morton

The acute actions of five prototype hallucinogens administered SC on food consumption in 23 hr food deprived dogs were compared with the anorexic effect of d-amphetamine and the hyperphagic effect of sodium pentobarbital. Comparisons were made on the basis of dose-response relationships. Among the hallucinogens decreasing food intake, both LSD and atropine produced substantial anorexia, but the...

A comparison of the behavioral effects of DOM homologs.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior April 1982 Richard A Glennon, R Young, John A. Rosecrans

Twenty-four rats, trained to discriminate 1.0 mg/kg of (+/-)-DOM, i.e. (+/-)-2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylphenylisopropylamine, from saline under a VI-15 schedule of reinforcement, were challenged with a series of DOM homologs. The agents examined included the 4-ethyl (DOET), -propyl (DOPR), -butyl (DOBU), -tertiary butyl (DOTB) and -amyl (DOAM) derivatives as well as the R(-)- and S(+)-isomers of...

Discriminative stimulus properties of DOM and several molecular modifications.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior April 1982 Richard A Glennon, R Young, John A. Rosecrans

Rats trained to discriminate racemic 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylphenylisopropylamine, (+/-)-DOM (1.0 mg/kg), from saline in a two-lever drug discrimination task were challenged with the optimal isomers of DOM as well as with several related agents which represent minor molecular modifications of the DOM structure. Generalization of the (+/-)-DOM stimulus was found to occur to R(-)-DOM, S(+)-DOM,...

Possible mechanism of 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine-induced turning behaviour in DRN lesioned rats.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 1982 T P Blackburn, B Cox, C G Heapy et al. 4 citations

5-Methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeODMT) (7.5 mg/kg SC) caused a contralateral turning in rats with a unilateral lesion of the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN). This turning behaviour was blocked by pretreatment with putative 5-HT antagonists, methysergide, cyproheptadine and cinanserin. The peripheral 5-HT antagonist, xylamidine, also prevented the response to 5-MeODMT. Of the other...

Drug-induced ataxia in opponents elicits "pathological" fighting in undrugged rats exposed to footshock.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior January 1982 M L Elliott, R J Sbordone

One member of a pair of rats was administered either mescaline, lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), pentobarbital, or ethanol intraperitoneally twenty minutes prior to exposure to footshock in the presence of an undrugged opponent. At high doses, all drugs elicited biting from the undrugged rat of sufficient intensity to produce injury to its drugged opponent. Low doses produced species-typical...

Antagonism of the behavioral effects of 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM) and quipazine by metergoline.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior October 1981 Randall L. Commissaris, Richard H. Rech

The present study examined the disruptive effects of the phenethylamine hallucinogen 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM) and the putative 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) agonist quipazine on fixed ratio-40 (FR-40) operant responding alone or after pretreatment with putative 5-HT antagonist metergoline. Food-deprived male rats were trained to bar press on a FR-40 schedule for food reinforcements;...

The behavioral effects of hallucinogens in rats following 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine administration into the medial forebrain bundle.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior June 1981 Randall L. Commissaris, David J. Mokler, William H. Lyness et al.

The hypothesis that 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) neurons and/or receptors are involved in the mechanism of action of hallucinogens is supported by the fact that intraventricular administration of the neurotoxin 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine (5,7-DHT) selectively destroys central 5-HT neurons in the brain and potentiates the behavioral effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD),...

The effects of d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM), pentobarbital and methaqualone on punished responding in control and 5,7-dihydroxytryptamine-treated rats

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior May 1, 1981 Randall L. Commissaris, William H. Lyness, Richard H. Rech 29 citations

The purpose of the present study was to determine the role of central 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) neuronal systems in the effects of d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), 2,5-methoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM), pentobarbital (PB) and methaqualone (MQ) on punished responding in rats. Water-deprived rats were trained to drink from a tube that was electrified at intervals (variable interval 21 sec;...

Central 5-hydroxytryptamine and the effects of hallucinogens and phenobarbital on operant responding in rats.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior May 1981 Randall L. Commissaris, William H. Lyness, K E Moore et al.

The present study was designed to examine the role of 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) neurons in the behavioral effects of d-lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), an indolealkylamine hallucinogen, 2.5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM) and mescaline, phenethylamine hallucinogens, and phenobarbital, a non-hallucinogen. Male rats, maintained at 70-80% of their free-feeding weights, were trained to press...

DOM and related 2,5-dimethoxy-4-alkylphenylisopropylamines: behavioral and serotonin receptor properties.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior March 1981 Richard A Glennon, D L Doot, R Young

Using an isolated rat fundus preparation, the 4-methyl (DOM), ethyl (DOET), propyl (DOPR) butyl (DOBU), tertiary butyl (DOTB) and amyl (DOAM) derivatives of 2,5-dimethoxy-phenylisopropylamine (2,5-DMA) were found to possess quite similar serotonin receptor affinities (pA2 - 7.02-7.22). The fundus preparation could not be used to determine pD2 values because all of the compounds were found to...

Evidence for dopamine mediation of submissive gestures in the stumptail macaque monkey.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior 1981 R F Schlemmer, J M Davis 31 citations

Evidence gathered from several experiments where stimulant drugs were given to selected members of adult Stumptail macaque social colonies is presented which suggests that dopamine systems play an important part in the mediation of submissive behavior in this species. Chronic administration of d-amphetamine, 3.2 mg/kg/day, for 12 days, induced a significant increase in submissive gestures...

The role of central serotonergic mechanisms on head-twitch and backward locomotion induced by hallucinogenic drugs.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior January 1981 T Yamamoto, S Ueki

Head-twitch induced by lysergic acid diethylamide, mescaline and 2,5-dimethoxy-4-methylamphetamine (DOM) was significantly increased by medial raphe (m-R) lesions, but dorsal raphe (d-R) lesions did not produce any changes. Hallucinogen-induced head twitch was inhibited by methysergide and tended to be increased by PCPA. These results suggest that 5-HT receptors innervated with the ascending...