title: 1S,3R-ACPD has cataleptogenic effects and reverses MK-801-, and less pronounced, D,L-amphetamine-induced locomotion.
abstract: The purpose of this study was to examine the motor effects of (1S,3R)-1-amino-cyclopentane-1,3-dicarboxylic acid (1S,3R-ACPD), an agonist at metabotropic glutamate receptors, its interaction with dizocilpine (MK-801), a NMDA receptor antagonist, and with D,L-amphetamine, an indirect dopamine receptor agonist. 1S,3R-ACPD (20, 30, 40, 80 micrograms) evoked prominent locomotor and exploratory deficits in an open-field hole-board test and a moderate akinesia and rigidity in a catalepsy test (30, 40, 80 micrograms). MK-801 (0.08, 0.16, 0.32 mg/kg i.p.) as well as D,L-amphetamine (1.0, 2.0, 3.0 mg/kg i.p.) potently reversed 1S,3R-ACPD-induced (80 micrograms) catalepsy. MK-801 and D,L-amphetamine, administered alone, induced motor stimulation. 1S,3R-ACPD (80 micrograms) reversed the effects of the two lower doses of MK-801. 1S,3R-ACPD reversed D,L-amphetamine-induced motor stimulation to a minor extent than that of MK-801. Thus motor deficits induced by 1S,3R-ACPD were reversed by both, NMDA receptor blockade and dopamine receptor activation. 1S,3R-ACPD reversed motor stimulation, induced by NMDA receptor blockade and, however less pronounced, that by dopamine receptor activation.
authors.affiliation: Department Neuropharmacology, Zoological Institute, University Tübingen, Germany. @www.uni-tuebingen.de/uni/bzn/index.html
authors.forename: U O
authors.initials: UO
authors.lastname: Kronthaler
authors.forename: W J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000661:Amphetamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D000818:Animals; D002375:Catalepsy / Q000188:drug therapy*; D003515:Cycloleucine / Q000031:analogs & derivatives* / Q000494:pharmacology; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate / Q000494:pharmacology*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D008124:Locomotion / Q000187:drug effects*; D008297:Male; D018696:Neuroprotective Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D051381:Rats; D017207:Rats, Sprague-Dawley; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000187:drug effects
chemical_list: D018696:Neuroprotective Agents; D003515:Cycloleucine; C036361:1-amino-1,3-dicarboxycyclopentane; D016291:Dizocilpine Maleate; D000661:Amphetamine