Effects of calcium channel blockers on pentylenetetrazol drug discrimination in rats.
Effects of calcium channel blockers on pentylenetetrazol drug discrimination in rats.
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钙通道阻滞剂对大鼠戊四唑药物辨别的影响。
DOI:
10.1016/s0741-8329(01)00123-9
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发表时间:
2001
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Lal,H
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Gatch,MB;Wallis,CJ;Lal,H
The effects of the dihydropyridine L-type calcium channel blockers nitrendipine and nimodipine on the pentylenetetrazol (PTZ) drug discrimination, an operant model of anxiety, were investigated. Male Long–Evans rats were trained to discriminate PTZ (16 mg/kg, i.p.) from saline. Both nitrendipine (5.0–25 mg/kg, i.p.) and nimodipine (5.0–25 mg/kg, i.p.) partially substituted for the PTZ discriminative stimulus. However, pretreatment with nitrendipine (25 mg/kg, i.p.) or nimodipine (25 mg/kg, i.p.) produced no change in the PTZ dose-effect function. Rats were given a nutritionally balanced liquid diet containing 6.5% ethanol for 10 days. Rats selected the PTZ drug lever during withdrawal. Subchronic coadministration of nitrendipine (1.25–5.0 mg/kg, i.p., b.i.d.) with ethanol failed to dose-dependently reduce PTZ-lever responding, but it did reverse withdrawal signs. Acute administration of nitrendipine (5, 10, and 20 mg/kg, i.p.) produced marked suppression of lever responding, but it failed to significantly reduce levels of PTZ-lever responding. Although calcium channel blockers reduce signs of ethanol withdrawal, they also markedly reduce rates of behavior and produce no clear effects on anxiety-like behaviors induced by ethanol withdrawal.