Behavioural and neurochemical characteristics of phentermine and fenfluramine administered separately and as a mixture in rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 131, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 296-306

  Shoaib, Mohammed ^a,b   Baumann, Michael H ^a   Rothman, Richard B ^a   Goldberg, Steven R ^a   Schindler, Charles W ^a  

^a NIDA Addiction Research Center   (United States)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Drug discrimination; Fenfluramine; Microdialysis; Phentermine; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE DERIVATIVE; COCAINE; DOPAMINE; FENFLURAMINE; NICOTINE; PHENTERMINE; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR MODIFICATION; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG DISCRIMINATION; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL; SEROTONIN RELEASE;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; COCAINE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE UPTAKE INHIBITORS; DRUG INTERACTIONS; FENFLURAMINE; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NICOTINE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENTERMINE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN AGENTS; STREET DRUGS;

EID: 0030871421     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002130050296     Document Type: Article

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