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Abstract
1 Benzoctamine, a new psychoactive drug, known to exert in man an anti-anxiety effect resembling that of chlordiazepoxide, decreased the disappearance of intraventricularly-injected [(14)C]-5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) from rat brain, as did chlordiazepoxide.2 Both drugs partially inhibited the alpha-ethyl-3-hydroxy-4-methylphenylethylamine-induced depletion of rat brain 5-HT.3 It is concluded that benzoctamine, like chlordiazepoxide, decreases 5-HT turnover in the brain and that this action may play a role in the anti-anxiety effect of these drugs observed in man.Entities:
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Year: 1974 PMID: 4480288 PMCID: PMC1778070 DOI: 10.1111/j.1476-5381.1974.tb09676.x
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Br J Pharmacol ISSN: 0007-1188 Impact factor: 8.739