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Published in final edited form as: Neuropharmacology. 2011 Feb 17;62(3):1527–1543. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2011.01.048

TABLE 3A.

Effects of adenosinergic drugs on learning and memory in normal animals: CCPA (2-chloro-N6-cyclopentyladenosine), SCH 58261 ({7-(2-phenylethyl)-5-amino-2-(2-furyl)-pyrazolo-[4,3-e]-1,2,4-triazolo[1,5c]-pyrimidine}), ZM 241385 (4-(2-[7-amino-2-(2-furyl{1,2,4}-triazolo{2,3a}-{1,3,5}triazin-5-yl-amino]ethyl)phenol), 8-PT (8-phenyltheophylline); the full names of the other drugs are provided in Table 1. ↓ / ↑: impairs / enhances memory performance; ↔ no effect. * indicates that the direction of caffeine's effect on retention of inhibitory avoidance learning was dependent on whether the drug was administered before (leading to retention impairment) or after (leading to retention enhancement) the learning phase of the experiment.

• Adenosinergic drugs on memory functions in non-pathological models
Associative learning Adenosinergic action Drug Effects on memory performance References
• Active avoidance A1R agonist L-PIA Haraguchi and Kuribara, 1991
A1R/A2R antagonist Caffeine #x2191; Yonkov, 1984
• Contextual conditoning A1R agonist CPA Corodimas and Tomita, 2001
• Eyeblink conditioning A2AR antagonist SCH 58261 Fontinha et al., 2009
• Inhibitory avoidance A1R agonist CCPA Pereira et al., 2005
CPA Normile and Barraco, 1991
CGS 21680 Pereira et al., 2005
A1R antagonist CPX Von Lubitz et al., 1993
DPCPX #x2191; Pereira et al., 2002
Pereira et al., 2005
Prediger et al., 2005d
Kopf et al., 1999
Normile and Barraco, 1991
A2AR antagonist SCH 58261 #x2191; Kopf et al., 1999
ZM 241385 Pereira et al., 2005
A1R/A2R antagonist Caffeine ↑ / ↓ * Angeluccci et al., 1999
#x2191; Kopf et al., 1999
Cestari and Castellano, 1996
• Passive avoidance A1R agonist CHA Tabata et al., 2001
Homayoun et al., 2001
Zarrindast and Shafaghi, 1994
CPA Tabata et al., 2001
R-PIA Homayoun et al., 2001
Zarrindast and Shafaghi, 1994
Suzuki et al., 1993
A1R/A2R antagonist Theophylline Zarrindast and Shafaghi, 1994
8-PT
Caffeine #x2191;
• Active avoidance learning A1R agonist CPA Martin et al., 1993
R-PIA
A2R agonist CV-1808
A1R/A2R agonist NECA
A1R/A2R antagonist Caffeine Zimmerberg et al., 1991
#x2191; Haraguchi and Kuribara, 1991
Spatial reference memory Adenosinergic action Drug Effects on memory performance References
• Morris water maze A1R agonist CPA #x2191; Von Lubitz et al., 1993
A1R antagonist CPX
A1R/A2R antagonist Caffeine #x2191; Angelucci et al., 2002
Prediger et al., 2005e
• Water multiple-alley maze Kant, 1993
• Radial arm maze Theophylline #x2191; Hauberand Bareiss, 2001
Working memory Adenosinergic action Drug Effects on memory performance References
• Delayed alternation A2AR agonist DPMA Fraser et al., 1997
A1R antagonist CPX
• Three-panel runway setup A2AR agonist CPA Ohno and Watanabe, 1996
CGS 21680
• Non-matching to sample A1R/A2R antagonist Caffeine Furusawa, 1991
• Radial arm maze Theophylline Hauber and Bareiss, 2001
Recognition memory Adenosinergic action Drug Effects on memory performance References
• Social recognition A2AR agonist DPMA Prediger et al., 2005a
A1R antagonist CCPA
DPCPX #x2191;
A2AR antagonist ZM 241385 #x2191;
A1R/A2R antagonist Caffeine #x2191;