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Pharmacol Biochem Behav. 1990 Oct;37(2):247-52.
Effects on opioid-induced rate reductions by doxepin and bupropion.
Macenski MJ, Cleary J, Thompson T.
University of Minnesota, Department of Psychology, Minneapolis 55455.
Twelve pigeons key-pecked under a multiple variable interval 15-second, variable interval 150-second schedule of food reinforcement. Effects of two opioid drugs, buprenorphine and methadone, were determined alone and in combination with chronic daily administration of the antidepressants doxepin or bupropion. Methadone initially produced dose-dependent key-pecking rate reductions when administered acutely, prior to the session, while buprenorphine produced key-pecking rates that reached a plateau at 50-80% of baseline rate and were not reduced further by higher doses. Neither doxepin nor bupropion, given alone, had lasting effects on key-pecking rates. Chronic daily doxepin administration significantly attenuated methadone-induced response rate reductions. Bupropion reduced the effect of the highest methadone dose, but this effect was mitigated by the development of opioid tolerance. Unlike bupropion, doxepin interfered with the development of opioid tolerance. Neither antidepressant systematically altered effects of buprenorphine on key-pecking.
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J Recept Res. 1993;13(1-4):341-54.
Regulation of dopamine receptors by bupropion: comparison with antidepressants and CNS stimulants.
Vassout A, Bruinink A, Krauss J, Waldmeier P, Bischoff S.
Research Department, CIBA-GEIGY Ltd., Basel, Switzerland.
Acute treatment of rats with the antidepressant bupropion increased [3H]spiperone binding to D2 receptors in vivo. This dose- and time-dependent effect was greatest in striatum and minimal in cerebellum and pituitary. A parallel behavioral stimulation occurred in the same rats. Among 21 antidepressants and CNS stimulants tested, only those that activate dopamine (DA) transmission had similar effects: nomifensine, amineptine, methylphenidate, D-amphetamine, amfonelic acid, cocaine, benztropine and GBR 12909. Decreasing DA transmission with reserpine plus alpha-methyl-p-tyrosine prevented the action of bupropion. Finally, bupropion was inactive in vitro and ex-vivo. Therefore, we propose that bupropion and other DA-enhancing agents modify the characteristics of [3H]spiperone binding through the intervention of a dynamic regulation of the D2 receptors by the neurotransmitter itself.
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J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1989 Oct;251(1):150-5.
Effects of cocaine and related drugs in nonhuman primates. III. Self-administration by squirrel monkeys.
Bergman J, Madras BK, Johnson SE, Spealman RD.
Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, New England Regional Primate Research Center, Southborough, Massachusetts.
The self-administration of cocaine was compared with that of bupropion, 1-(2-[bis(4-fluorophenyl)methoxy]ethyl]-4-(3-phenylpropyl)piperazine, mazindol, methylphenidate and nomifensine, drugs that displace [3H]cocaine from its binding sites and have monoamine uptake inhibiting effects in common with those of cocaine. Squirrel monkeys responded under a second-order fixed-interval schedule of consequent i.v. drug injection, and dose-effect curves were established by determining stable rates of responding maintained by saline and a range of doses of each drug. Cocaine (0.01-0.56 mg/kg/injection), bupropion (0.1-3.0 mg/kg/injection), 1-(2-[bis(4-fluorophenyl)methoxy]ethyl)-4-(3- phenylpropyl)piperazine-(0.03-1.0 mg/kg/injection), methylphenidate (0.01-0.3 mg/kg/injection) and nomifensine (0.01-0.3 mg/kg) maintained comparable rates and patterns of responding in all subjects, whereas mazindol (0.03-0.3 mg/kg) maintained self-administration behavior in only half the monkeys studied. The present results in conjunction with those of previous studies in squirrel monkeys reveal a close correspondence between the relative potencies of cocaine and related drugs for maintaining i.v. self-administration and for increasing rates of schedule-controlled responding, suggesting that the reinforcing and psychomotor-stimulant effects of the drugs are mediated similarly. The potency relations observed in the present study also agree generally with those observed for displacement of specifically bound [3H]cocaine in monkey caudate-putamen suggesting that the reinforcing effects of cocaine involve its actions at specific recognition sites in brain.
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