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The effects of phencyclidine (PCP) and NPC 12626 on punished responding were examined using a modified Geller-Seifter procedure in rats. Both drugs are known to antagonize N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor mediated neurotransmission, albeit at different sites on the NMDA receptor complex. Rats were trained to lever press for food reinforcement under a multiple schedule, with responding in one component reinforced under a fixed-interval 60-sec schedule, while each response in the other component resulted in both food and brief electric shock. Both PCP and NPC 12626 produced selective increases in punished responding, although the effects were not as large as those produced by chlordiazepoxide. Repeated daily administration of each of these drugs for 6 days resulted in increases in punished responding during different portions of the treatment. A 5 mg/kg dose of chlordiazepoxide produced increases over the last 2 days of administration. PCP (2 mg/kg) produced an increase only during the second session, whereas NPC 12626 (30 mg/kg) produced increases for all but the first and fifth days of the 6-day regimen. Both competitive and noncompetitive NMDA antagonists can have antipunishment effects in this model.
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PMID:Antipunishment effects of acute and repeated administration of phencyclidine and NPC 12626 in rats. 134 14

Ethanol has been shown to antagonize N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor-mediated neurotransmission in a number of in vitro systems. Drug discrimination procedures in rats were used to evaluate ethanol as an antagonist of NMDA discrimination and for its ability to produce discriminative stimulus effects similar to those of competitive and noncompetitive NMDA antagonists. Ethanol (300-1500 mg/kg i.p.) failed to antagonize the stimulus effects of 30 mg/kg NMDA, nor did it substitute fully for either the competitive antagonist NPC 12626 nor the noncompetitive antagonist phencyclidine (PCP). A maximum average of 55.4% PCP-lever responding provided evidence for partial substitution in this model. The effects of ethanol on NMDA discrimination are distinct from those previously reported for competitive NMDA antagonists but similar to those of noncompetitive antagonists. On the other hand, ethanol can be distinguished from both competitive and PCP-like noncompetitive NMDA antagonists using drug discrimination procedures.
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PMID:Drug discrimination analysis of ethanol as an N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist. 146 98

Electrophysiological and behavioral methods were used to evaluate and compare the effects of the competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor blocker, NPC 12626, with the non-competitive NMDA antagonist, phencyclidine (PCP), on the activity of mesolimbic dopamine neurons. NPC 12626 (50 mg/kg, i.p.) produced a degree of locomotor hyperactivity comparable to that seen with PCP (5 mg/kg). However, 6-hydroxydopamine lesions of the nucleus accumbens blocked the PCP-induced hyperactivity but not the behavioral activation evoked by NPC 12626. Single-unit extracellular recordings from ventral tegmental A10 dopamine neurons also found marked differences between the competitive and non-competitive NMDA antagonists. Intravenous injections of NPC 12626 and CGS 19755 in doses up to 60 mg/kg failed to change A10 activity. This was in contrast to the striking bimodal dose-dependent increase-decrease in firing rate elicited by PCP. The absence of an effect of NPC 12626 on A10 neurons was not evidently related to a lack of access to central sites since NPC pretreatment (40 mg/kg, i.v.) completely antagonized the neurotoxicity caused by intrastriatal injection of quinolinic acid, an NMDA agonist, but not that caused by the non-NMDA compound, kainic acid. Thus, competitive NMDA antagonists do not share PCP's properties of activating mesolimbic dopaminergic systems, and as such they may be devoid of the potent psychotomimetic effects or the abuse liability associated with non-competitive NMDA receptor blockers such as PCP.
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PMID:Effects of competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists on midbrain dopamine neurons: an electrophysiological and behavioral comparison to phencyclidine. 183 40

Effects of the noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonist phencyclidine (PCP) and competitive antagonists 3-(2-carboxypiperazin-4-yl)propyl-1-phosphonic acid (CPP) and 2-amino-4,5-(1,2-cyclohexyl)-7-phosphonoheptanoic acid (NPC 12626) were studied in 6 squirrel monkeys trained under a multiple schedule of unpunished and punished lever pressing. PCP (0.03-0.3 mg/kg, IM) failed to produce increases in punished responding, even at doses that produced extreme response-rate decreases in nonpunishment components. Similarly, CPP (1-17 mg/kg) and NPC 12626 (3-30 mg/kg) did not produce increases in punished responding at any dose tested. Repeated administration of NPC 12626 (17 mg/kg) for 4 consecutive days did not result in increased rates of punished responding. The benzodiazepine anxiolytic midazolam (0.3 mg/kg) and, to a lesser extent, the barbiturate pentobarbital (5.6 mg/kg), produced increases in punished responding in the same subjects at doses that did not markedly affect unpunished responding. Coadministration of PCP (0.03 mg/kg) with doses of midazolam ranging from 0.03-3 mg/kg did not produce changes in the midazolam dose-response curve for either unpunished or punished responding. These results fail to support findings in rats that NMDA antagonists produce antipunishment effects similar to those of benzodiazepine anxiolytics.
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PMID:NMDA antagonists: lack of antipunishment effect in squirrel monkeys. 183 55

Behavioral effects of PCP-type noncompetitive antagonists of N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors overlap with those of a host of other centrally acting compounds. In the present experiment, locomotor activity and performance on an inverted screen test in untrained mice were used to differentiate PCP-type non-competitive NMDA antagonists from other drug classes. These uncompetitive NMDA antagonists [PCP, dizocilpine, (-)-MK-801, TCP, (+)-SKF 10,047, dextrorphan, ketamine] produced dose-related increases in locomotor activity and the percentage of mice falling off an inverted, elevated wire mesh screen. Both effects demonstrated stereoselectivity, occurred at comparable dose levels, and were within the range of doses producing other biological effects (e.g., anticonvulsant). The potencies of these drugs for producing behavioral effects were positively correlated with affinities for PCP ([3H]MK-801) but not sigma([3H]SKF 10,047) receptors. Although muscarinic antagonists (benactyzine, atropine) produced effects in the same direction, locomotor stimulation was small and occurred at lower doses than those inducing screen failures. Competitive NMDA antagonists (LY 274614, LY 233536, CPP, NPC 12626), sigma receptor ligands (DTG, dextromethorphan), postsynaptic dopamine agonists (quinpirole, SKF 38393) and antagonists (haloperidol, SCH 39166), and some depressant compounds (morphine, diazepam) increased failures on the screen test but decreased locomotor activity. Ligands of the polyamine regulatory site of the NMDA receptor (ifenprodil, SL 82.0715-10) and the AMPA receptor antagonist NBQX decreased locomotor activity without increasing screen failures. An antagonist of the strychnine-insensitive glycine receptor (7-chlorokynurenic acid) did not affect performance on either test. Psychomotor stimulants (cocaine and methamphetamine) stimulated locomotor activity without affecting screen performance. The only false positives occurred with barbiturates (pentobarbital, phenobarbital). Nonetheless, the present procedure demonstrates excellent sensitivity and power for rapid discrimination of uncompetitive NMDA antagonists.
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PMID:Sensitive and rapid behavioral differentiation of N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonists. 785 18

Drug discrimination studies have proven useful for comparing and contrasting the behavioral effects of site-selective N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonists. This study examined the effects of competitive and non-competitive NMDA antagonists in squirrel monkeys trained to discriminate 1 mg/kg D-CPPene [D-3-(2-carboxypiperazine-4-yl)-1- propenyl-1-phosphonic acid; SDZ EAA 494] from vehicle in a two-lever drug discrimination procedure. Results show that D-CPPene and several other competitive NMDA antagonists (NPC 17742, CGS 19755, and CGP 37849) completely substituted for D-CPPene in a dose-dependent manner. In contrast, phencyclidine (PCP) and ketamine produced only partial substitution at doses that severely suppressed response rates. These results are consistent with results of earlier studies with rats and monkeys showing differences in the discriminative stimulus effects of competitive and PCP-like non-competitive NMDA antagonists. The data support the predictions (1) that D-CPPene and the other competitive NMDA antagonists tested would have similar subjective effects in humans and (2) that some differences would be found in the subjective effects of competitive NMDA antagonists and PCP-like non-competitive antagonists.
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PMID:Effects of competitive and non-competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonists in squirrel monkeys trained to discriminate D-CPPene (SDZ EAA 494) from vehicle. 789 15

Phencyclidine (PCP) and PCP-like drugs increased firing rates and the amount of burst activity of A10 dopamine neurons recorded extracellularly in anesthetized rats. These effects correlated to their potency as noncompetitive N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) antagonists but not to their affinity for the sigma-receptor. In contrast, the direct acting NMDA antagonists, CGS 19755, (+)CPP and NPC 12626, produced no alterations in either firing rate or burst patterns. However, pretreatment with either CGS 19755 or (+)CPP effectively attenuated the excitatory effects of PCP. In contrast to the findings obtained in the whole animal, PCP in the midbrain slice preparation did not activate dopamine neurons, even though PCP selectively blocked the excitations induced by NMDA but not those of the nonNMDA agonists, kainate and AMPA. In the self-administration test system a progressive-ratio schedule of reinforcement was used to assess the reinforcing strength of PCP and the PCP congeners, TCP and BTCP. In comparison to BTCP, which produced breaking points comparable to those occurring with equivalent doses of cocaine, PCP and TCP had considerably less reinforcing efficacy. These behavioral differences appeared to reflect the affinity of the compounds for the dopamine reuptake site versus the PCP binding site on the NMDA-ion channel complex. Thus, PCP's psychotomimetic effects and abuse liability properties may result from the differential mechanisms by which it affects limbic and cortical dopamine neurotransmission.
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PMID:Phencyclidine and the midbrain dopamine system: electrophysiology and behavior. 796 39

Metaphit [an analogue of phencyclidine (PCP) with an acylating isothiocyanate group] induced audiogenic clonic to clonic-tonic seizures in mice exposed to audio stimulation 24 h after metaphit administration. The incidence of seizures was reduced by treatment 30 min before audio stimulation with specific PCP-like compounds [5-methyl-10,11-dihydro-5H-dibenzo(a,d)cyclohepten-5,10-imine maleate (MK-801), and PCP itself], competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists 2-amino-5-phosphonopentanoic acid (AP-5 and NPC-12626), antiepileptic drugs [phenobarbital (PB), phenytoin (PHT)], and gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) agonists (muscimol and diazepam). In contrast, when given in conjunction with metaphit, most of these drugs were ineffective in protecting animals from audiogenic seizures 24 h later. Only compounds with long half-lives (t1/2) such as MK-801, PB, and PHT had a protective effect. High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) determination of [3H]MK-801 showed its long-term presence in the brain after intraperitoneal (i.p.) administration of [3H]MK-801. Audiogenic seizures observed 24 h after metaphit administration were potentiated by administration of the GABA antagonist picrotoxin 15 min before audio stimulation, and picrotoxin-induced spontaneous seizures were enhanced by pretreatment (24 h earlier) with a dose of metaphit that in itself did not produce spontaneous seizures at the time of the picrotoxin test. Similar observations were made with N-methyl D-aspartic acid (NMDA) instead of picrotoxin. Thus, an interplay exists between excitatory glutaminergic and inhibitory GABAergic circuitries in the metaphit seizure model.
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PMID:Metaphit-induced audiogenic seizures in mice: I. Pharmacologic characterization. 838 6

Several pharmacologically distinct sites are known to modulate the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor/ion complex, including a site within the ion channel which binds uncompetitive antagonists like phencyclidine (PCP) or dizocilpine. Glycine acts as a co-agonist for activation of the NMDA receptor complex through a strychnine-insensitive receptor, which is a potential target for novel therapeutic agents (e.g., anticonvulsants, antidepressants). We evaluated the behavioral effects of glycine receptor ligands in rats trained to discriminate either dizocilpine or PCP from saline, to predict whether glycine receptor ligands might induce undesirable PCP-like subjective effects in humans. Dizocilpine ([+]-MK-801), (-)-MK-801 and PCP produced dose-dependent substitution in these rats with potencies in accord with NMDA receptor affinity. Pentobarbital and drugs acting at other sites of the NMDA receptor, including competitive antagonists (NPC 12626 and LY 274614) and the polyamine antagonist, ifenprodil, did not substitute for either dizocilpine or PCP. In contrast to the uncompetitive antagonists like PCP, none of the strychnine-insensitive glycine receptor ligands substituted. Neither the full agonist, glycine; the partial agonists, 1-amino-1-cyclopropanecarboxylic acid, D-cycloserine or (+)-3-amino-1-hydroxypyrrolid-2-one; nor the antagonists, 7-chloro and 5,7-dichlorokynurenic acid, mimicked the discriminative stimulus effects of dizocilpine or PCP. Further, co-administration of 1-amino-1-cyclopropanecarboxylic acid did not significantly enhance the discriminative stimulus effects of dizocilpine. Intracerebroventricular administration of D-serine, a selective agonist of the strychnine-insensitive glycine receptor, neither mimicked nor blocked the discriminative stimulus effects of PCP. These data suggest that functional antagonists of the strychnine-insensitive glycine receptor may be devoid of the subjective side effects characteristic of NMDA channel ligands.
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PMID:Effects of strychnine-insensitive glycine receptor ligands in rats discriminating dizocilpine or phencyclidine from saline. 899 80

Drug discrimination studies in rats and monkeys with competitive N-methyl-D-aspartate. (NMDA) antagonists as training drugs have shown that these drugs typically cross-substitute for each other, whereas phencyclidine (PCP)-like NMDA channel blockers produce partial, if any, substitution. In the present study, rats and squirrel monkeys were trained to discriminate the competitive NMDA antagonist, NPC 17742, from vehicle in a two-lever drug discrimination procedure for food reinforcement. The competitive NMDA antagonists, NPC 12626, SDZ EAA 494 (D-CPPene), and MDL 100,453 fully substituted for NPC 17742 in monkeys or in rats. The relative potencies of these compounds were similar across species. Open channel blockers, PCP and dizocilpine, and the tricyclic antidepressant and low affinity PCP-site ligand, desipramine, produced minimal responding on the NPC 17742-associated lever in rats or monkeys. The glycine-site modulators, (+)-HA-966, ACEA 1021 and milacemide, and the polyamine/NR2B-selective antagonist, eliprodil, also failed to substitute fully for NPC 17742 in rats and monkeys. These data complement and extend results of previous studies which have shown a lack of PCP-like discriminative stimulus effects of these non-competitive NMDA antagonists by further showing that they also do not share discriminative stimulus effects with those produced by many competitive NMDA antagonists. These observations would support a prediction that differences in side-effect profiles should emerge among types of NMDA antagonists.
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PMID:Discriminative stimulus effects of site-selective N-methyl-D-aspartate antagonists in NPC 17742-trained rats and squirrel monkeys. 929 16


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