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R L Friedman, E Sanders-Bush, R L Barrett.
Abstract
Clozapine was tested in two serotonin-dependent behavioral measures. One group of rats was trained to discriminate the serotonin agonist, quipazine, from saline in a two-lever operant choice task. Pretreatment with clozapine completely blocked the discrimination of quipazine. Another group of rats was trained to bar press for milk on a variable interval schedule of reinforcement. Quipazine decreased the response rate in these animals and pretreatment with clozapine completely reversed this effect. Thus, clozapine acted as a serotonin antagonist in both measures of serotonin function.Entities:
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Year: 1984 PMID: 6529966 DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(84)90695-2
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Pharmacol ISSN: 0014-2999 Impact factor: 4.432