Psychopharmacology
1977
David A. Gorelick, Wagner H. Bridger
9 citations
The effects of mescaline hydrochloride (4.95-79.2 mg/kg i.p.) and its non-hallucinogenic analogue 3,4-dimethoxyphenylethylamine hydrochloride (DMPEA) (12.5-100 mg/kg i.p.) on shock avoidance in a shuttlebox were studied in male Long-Evans rats trained to high (above 88%, good performers) or low (below 6%, poor performers) stable base-line avoidance rates. In good performers, mescaline and DMPEA...
Psychopharmacology
1977
Herbert Y. Meltzer, Richard G. Fessler, Miljana Simonovic et al.
Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD), 0.05 mg/kg and 0.20 mg/kg, significantly decreased plasma prolactin (PRL) levels in male rats. LSD, 0.20 mg/kg, also inhibits the increase in plasma PRL levels produced by chlorpromazine (CPZ), 5 mg/kg, and alpha-methylparatyrosine (AMPT), 50 mg/kg, both of which interfere with dopaminergic inhibition of PRL secretion. LSD was more potent than methysergide, a...
Psychopharmacology
1976
B. Angrist, S. Gershon, G. Sathananthan et al.
44 citations
A gas chromatographic-mass spectrometric determination of blood N,N-dimethyltryptamine in normal controls and schizophrenic patients was carried out with a sensitivity limit of 0.05 ng/ml whole blood. Although the results appear to suggest that the mean DMT level was higher in the total patient group, those patients with acute psychosis, female patients and patients with suspiciousness scores...
Psychopharmacology
1976
T. U. C. Järbe, J. O. Johansson, B. G. Henriksson
40 citations
Rats were trained in a T-shaped maze to discriminate the effects produced by i.p. injections of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC) and the no-drug state (state-dependency, StD). Several doses of both Δ^8-THC (range: 0.75–5.0 mg/kg) and Δ^9-THC (range: 0.75–10.0 mg/kg) were used in order to compare the number of sessions required by the animals until reaching criterion performance. An additional group...
Psychopharmacology
1976
Mona Eliasson, Bengt J. Meyerson
34 citations
The effects of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) and apomorphine were compared using female copulatory behavior (lordosis response), in ovariectomized estrogen + progesterone-treated rats. Both serotonin and dopamine are implicated in the inhibition of this behavior. Each compound inhibited lordosis behavior dose dependently and with a similar time-course. Pimozide (0.1; 0.5 mg/kg) blocked the...
Psychopharmacology
1976
Ira D. Hirschhorn, John A. Rosecrans
30 citations
The present investigation sought to determine whether the stimulus properties of morphine and lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) would generalize to several narcotic analgesics which vary in their subjective effects. Morphine and saline served as discriminative stimuli for one group of rats in a 2-lever discrimination task. LSD and saline were discriminative stimuli for a second group. Depression...
Psychopharmacology
1976
David M. Stoff, Richard Jed Wyatt, J. Christian Gillin
6 citations
Acute parachlorophenylalanine (pCPA) pretreatment (150 mg/kg, i.p., 24 h beforehand) potentiated facilitatory effects of mescaline (39.6 mg/kg i.p.) on shuttlebox escape/avoidance in hooded rats, tested in two different situations: 1. during aquisition of avoidance behavior (Experiment 1); and 2. in stable pretrained poor avoiders (Experiment 2). pCPA alone did not influence avoidance behavior...
Psychopharmacology
1976
Sergio Solbes Ferri, A. Santagostino, P. C. Braga
6 citations
Some effects of intraventricular injection of mescaline are examined in conscious rabbits. By means of electrical stimulation of the tooth pulp it is shown that an acute treatment with 70, 100, 150 mug/kg of mescaline elicits analgesia, the intensity of which is dose-dependent: with daily administration of 100 mug/kg for 5 days a complete tolerance develops to the antinociceptive effect. A...
Psychopharmacology
1976
Hubert Korr
5 citations
Autoradiographs of the brain of the marmoset, Callithrix jacchus, show a strong labeling of the hippocampus and the N. amygdalae 18 h after injection of 3H-mescaline. A similar characteristic autoradiographic pattern was previously found in the mouse brain, too.
Psychopharmacology
1976
Sergio Solbes Ferri, A. Santagostino, Pier Carlo Braga
4 citations
Tolerance and cross tolerance to the antinociceptive effect of equipotent doses of morphine (10 mug/kg) and mescaline (100 mug/kg) are shown in the rabbit after their repeated intracerebroventricular administration. The recording of the electrical activity of different brain areas indicates that a partial tolerance also develops to the EEG effects in animals undergoing chronic treatment with...
Psychopharmacology
1975
Jerrold C Winter
24 citations
The effects of mescaline (3,4,5-trimethoxyphenylethylamine), a hallucinogen, can function as a discriminative stimulus in appropriately trained rats. As a test of the hypothesis that those pharmacologic properties which distinguish hallucinogens and non-hallucinogens in man are reflected in distinctive stimuli in rats, the present experiments examined the effects of...
Psychopharmacology
1975
Brenda K. Colasanti, Naim Khazan
14 citations
Recordings of the electroencephalogram (EEG) and the electromyogram (EMG) were collected continuously from rats equipped with permanent cortical and temporalis muscle electrodes. Automatic injections of mescaline were administered through indwelling i.p. cannulas at an initial dose of 30 mg/kg every 6 hrs for the first 2 days. This dose was then increased to 60 mg/kg 6 hr which was given for...
Psychopharmacology
1975
David A. Gorelick, Wagner H. Bridger
5 citations
This experiment is related to the hypothesis of Bridger and of Wray that hallucinogens have facilitatory effects on animal behavior when stress is part of the experiment and have disruptive effects otherwise. Male Long-Evans rats were trained to high (above 89%), stable base line rates of shuttlebox avoidance, then given each of four treatments at 6-day intervals after returning to base line...
Psychopharmacology
1975
R. Utzinger
3 citations
Antibodies with mescaline binding specificity were raised in rabbits by immunization with conjugates of bovine serum albumin with mescaline or its analogue 3,4,5-trimethoxyphenylacetic acid. Immunized rats were given mescaline and their behavior was compared to that of non-immunized controls.
Psychopharmacology
1975
Ian E. Lush
2 citations
Males from the following strains were surveyed with respect to their hexobarbitone sleeping time: A2G, C57BR, C3H, F/st, CBA, ICFW and Schneider. Males from the same strains had previously been surveyed with respect to the inhibitory effect of mescaline on their emotional defaecation. There is a strong interstrain correlation between the 2 measures. This correlation was unexpected on...
Psychopharmacology
1971
Ira D. Hirschhorn, Jerrold C Winter
48 citations
The fruiting bodies of C.laeve are several cm across, roundish, latercoalescing, soft and separable from the substrate.The colour is variable, brownish, light brownish-gray yellow to a gray brownwith a whitish, samewhat hairy margin.Upper surface smooth often cracked.Basidia 25-40-90 X 45.:_9 fl; spores obovate, sometimes slightly bent at the base 7-9-r2 X 45-7 fl (Bourd.and Galz.).In the...