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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 May 7.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Drug Abuse Rev. 2008 Nov;1(3):303–327. doi: 10.2174/1874473710801030303

Table 7.

Pharmacological Actions of Serotonine (5-HT2A, 5-HT2C) Agents in Animal Models or Paradigms of Psychostimulant Addiction

M100907 Ro 60-0175
Pharmacological Actions 5-HT2A antagonist 5-HT2C agonist
Self-Administration (SA) No effect on cocaine SA ↓ Cocaine SA (FR, PR)
Reinstatement of Drug-Seeking (Relapse) ↓ Relapse by cocaine or cues ↓ Relapse by cocaine or cues
Conditioned Place Preference (CPP) ↓ CPP by cocaine
Psychostimulant-like Discriminative Stimulus Effects (DS) ↓ DS by cocaine ↑ DS by cocaine
Behavioral Sensitization (BS) ↓ BS by cocaine or amphetamine ↓ Cocaine-induced hyperactivity
Abuse Liability cocaine-like DS by itself cocaine-like DS by itself
Natural Reward ↓ food-taking
Clinical Trials No No