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Dissociation of cocaine-antagonist properties and motoric effects of the D1 receptor partial agonists SKF 83959 and SKF 77434.

Abstract
Previous studies suggest that D1 receptor partial agonists may be viable candidates for development as pharmacotherapies for cocaine addiction. This study investigated the ability of the D1 receptor partial agonists SKF 83959 and SKF 77434 to modulate the behavioral effects of cocaine and compared these effects with those of the reference D1 receptor antagonist SCH 39166 and D1 receptor agonists SKF 81297 and 6-Br-APB. Squirrel monkeys were trained either to respond under a fixed-interval schedule of stimulus-shock termination or to discriminate cocaine from vehicle (procedures useful for evaluating the behavioral stimulant and subjective effects of cocaine, respectively). Additional monkeys were studied with quantitative observational techniques to evaluate the effects of the drugs on various forms of motor behavior. Like SCH 39166, but unlike SKF 81297 and 6-Br-APB, the D1 receptor partial agonists attenuated the behavioral stimulant and discriminative stimulus effects of cocaine in a dose-dependent manner, although maximum antagonism produced by SKF 77434 was not always as great as that produced by SKF 83959 or SCH 39166. In observational studies, SKF 83959 and SKF 77434 produced less severe disruptions in motor behavior than did SCH 39166 and, for SKF 83959, showed a greater separation between the dose required to antagonize the behavioral effects of cocaine and the dose that induced catalepsy (>/=33-fold). These results suggest that D1 receptor partial agonists can act as functional cocaine antagonists with less severe behavioral effects than D1 receptor antagonists. The prominent cocaine-antagonist properties and the low incidence of motoric side effects of SKF 83959 may reflect its unique binding profile at D1 as well as nondopaminergic receptors.
AuthorsD M Platt, J K Rowlett, R D Spealman
JournalThe Journal of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics (J Pharmacol Exp Ther) Vol. 293 Issue 3 Pg. 1017-26 (Jun 2000) ISSN: 0022-3565 [Print] United States
PMID10869406 (Publication Type: Journal Article, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.)
Chemical References
  • Benzazepines
  • Dopamine Agonists
  • Receptors, Dopamine D1
  • ecopipam
  • 2,3,4,5-Tetrahydro-7,8-dihydroxy-1-phenyl-1H-3-benzazepine
  • SK&F 83959
  • Cocaine
  • SK&F 77434
Topics
  • 2,3,4,5-Tetrahydro-7,8-dihydroxy-1-phenyl-1H-3-benzazepine (analogs & derivatives, pharmacology)
  • Animals
  • Benzazepines (pharmacology)
  • Catalepsy (chemically induced)
  • Cocaine (antagonists & inhibitors)
  • Discrimination Learning (drug effects)
  • Dopamine Agonists (pharmacology)
  • Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
  • Male
  • Muscle Rigidity (chemically induced)
  • Receptors, Dopamine D1 (agonists)
  • Saimiri

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