(-)Ephedrine and caffeine mutually potentiate one another's amphetamine-like stimulus effects

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 61, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 169-173

  Young, Richard ^a   Gabryszuk, Miroslaw ^a   Glennon, Richard A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amphetamine; Caffeine; Drug abuse; Ephedrine; Herbal dietary supplements; Stimulants

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; CAFFEINE; EPHEDRINE; HERBACEOUS AGENT; HERBAL ECSTASY; HERBAL XTC; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET SUPPLEMENTATION; DRUG ABUSE; DRUG POTENTIATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULUS GENERALIZATION; TRAINING;

AMPHETAMINE; ANIMALS; CAFFEINE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; DRUG SYNERGISM; EPHEDRINE; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STEREOISOMERISM;

EID: 0032190479     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(98)00044-6     Document Type: Article

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