title: Amantadine: evaluation of reinforcing properties and effect on cocaine self-injection in baboons.
abstract: The ability of amantadine to maintain self-injection behavior and to alter self-administration of cocaine was examined in baboons using a standard intravenous cocaine self-injection procedure. Responding was maintained under a FR 80- or 160-response schedule of intravenous cocaine delivery (0.32 mg/kg per injection). Each drug injection was followed by a 3-h time-out allowing a maximum of 8 injections/day. Vehicle or amantadine doses were substituted for cocaine for a period of 15 or more days. Evaluation of a wide range of amantadine doses (0.32-32 mg/kg per injection) showed that this compound did not maintain self-administration behavior above vehicle control levels. In another experiment using the cocaine self-injection baseline, amantadine (10 or 32 mg/kg per day) was administered via a chronic intravenous infusion. Cocaine self-injection behavior was maintained and re-initiated during chronic amantadine exposure, suggesting that the reinforcing efficacy of cocaine was not modified by chronic amantadine administration.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21205.
authors.forename: C A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Sannerud
authors.forename: R R
authors.initials: RR
authors.lastname: Griffiths
mesh_terms: D000547:Amantadine / Q000494:pharmacology* / Q000633:toxicity; D000818:Animals; D003042:Cocaine / Q000008:administration & dosage*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D008297:Male; D010215:Papio; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012646:Self Administration
chemical_list: D000547:Amantadine; D003042:Cocaine