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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
1993-4-1
pubmed:abstractText
Because excitatory amino acids have been implicated in several physiological phenomena, antagonists of excitatory amino acid function may have significant therapeutic potential as anticonvulsants, neuroprotectants and anxiolytics. Drug discrimination procedures in animals have proven useful to compare and contrast the behavioral effects of site-selective NMDA antagonists. In the only previous study using a competitive NMDA antagonist as a training drug, rats were trained to discriminate NPC 12626 (2-amino-4,5-(1,2-cyclohexyl)-7-phosphonohepatanoic acid) from nondrug. The major goal of the present study was to establish and characterize a nonhuman primate model of NPC 12626 discrimination. Adult male squirrel monkeys were trained to discriminate NPC 12626 from saline under a two-lever fixed ratio-30 schedule of food reinforcement. The monkeys required between 80 and 120 training sessions to acquire this discrimination after the training dose had been raised from 3 to 20 mg/kg i.m. The competitive NMDA antagonists CGP 37849 (D,L-(E)-2-amino-4-methyl-5- phosphono-3-pentanoic acid) and CPPene (D-3-(2-carboxypiperazin-4-yl)-1-propenyl-1-phosphonic acid) substituted completely for NPC 12626, while the potent noncompetitive NMDA antagonist, dizocilpine (MK-801), did not. These results reflect a profile of discriminative stimulus effects which support that observed in rats and establish a primate model for use in further study of the behavioral effects of the competitive NMDA antagonists.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jan
pubmed:issn
0014-2999
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:day
19
pubmed:volume
230
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
285-92
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1993
pubmed:articleTitle
Effects of NMDA receptor antagonists in squirrel monkeys trained to discriminate the competitive NMDA receptor antagonist NPC 12626 from saline.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Medical College of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond 23298-0613.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.