title: The effects of perphenazine on self-administration behavior.
abstract: In Experiment 1.6 rhesus monkeys prepared with intravenous catheters responded on a fixed-ratio 10 schedule for either an injection of 0.2 mg/kg of cocaine or 0.5 mg/kg of pentobarbital during a daily 3 hr session. The substitution of saline or various doses of perphenazine resulted in very low rates of responding. These results indicate that perphenazine is not a positive reinforcer. Pretreating animals maintained on 0.1 mg/kg or 0.2 mg/kg of cocaine with perphenazine resulted in increases in rate of self-administration at some doses and a decrease in rate at higher doses. The dose of perphenazine which resulted in the maximal increase in cocaine self-administration was directly related to the dose of cocaine maintaining responding. Pretreating animals maintained on 0.5 mg/kg of pentobarbital with perphenazine had no effect at doses which increased cocaine self-administration but decreased rate of pentobarbital self-administration at higher doses. These results indicate that perphenazine is capable of antagonizing some of the effects of cocaine.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D001522:Behavior, Animal / Q000187:drug effects*; D003042:Cocaine / Q000494:pharmacology; D000882:Haplorhini; D007858:Learning / Q000187:drug effects; D008253:Macaca mulatta; D008297:Male; D010424:Pentobarbital / Q000494:pharmacology; D010546:Perphenazine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D012055:Reinforcement Schedule; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology
chemical_list: D010546:Perphenazine; D010424:Pentobarbital; D003042:Cocaine