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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurotoxicology. 2019 Apr 3;73:161–167. doi: 10.1016/j.neuro.2019.04.002

Table 1.

Effects of injected and aerosolized synthetic cannabinoids in mice trained to discriminate 5.6 mg/kg THC from vehicle

Intraperitoneal Injection Aerosol
ED50 (mg/kg)
(± 95% CI)
EC50 (mg/ml)
(± 95% CI)
Test substance
CB1 receptor affinitya
Males Females Males Females
THC
CB1 Ki = 50 nMb
1.50
(1.20 – 1.89)
1.55
(1.23 – 1.94)
Not tested Not tested
CP55,940
CB1 Ki = 1.74 nMc
0.03
(0.03 – 0.04)
0.06
(0.05 – 0.07)
6.00
(3.92 – 9.17)
7.32
(5.63 – 9.51)
AB-CHMINACA
CB1 Ki = 0.78 nMd
0.09
(0.07 – 0.13)
0.08
(0.06 – 0.10)
3.67
(3.38 – 3.99)
5.62
(4.99 – 6.32)
AMB-FUBINACA
CB1 Ki = 2 nMb
0.04
(0.03 – 0.05)
0.07
(0.06 – 0.09)
0.39
(0.32 – 0.46)
0.94
(0.74 – 1.20)
Cumyl-4CN-BINACA
CB1 Ki = 8.58 nMb
Not tested Not tested Not tested 1.86
(1.21 – 2.84)
a

[3H]CP55,940 was used as ligand for all CB1 binding assays.

b

Personal communication (Michelle Glass, University of Otago, New Zealand). Binding affinities were obtained using methods described in (Banister et al., 2019).