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  • Title: Antagonism of morphine-induced aversive conditioning by naloxone.
    Author: LeBlanc AE, Cappell H.
    Journal: Pharmacol Biochem Behav; 1975; 3(2):185-8. PubMed ID: 1144478.
    Abstract:
    In Experiment 1, 4 doses of morphine and 4 doses of naloxone were tested for their ability to induce a conditioned aversion to saccharin in rats. Morphine was much more potent than naloxone which had only weak effects at the highest dose (12.96 mg/kg). Based on the determinations of Experiment 1, doses of 0.096, 0.96 and 0.6 mg/kg of morphine in a second experiment. The highest dose of naloxone was an effective antagonist of morphine-induced aversion. The antagonism was incomplete, but this may have reflected the particular dose combinations that were employed. Although 12.96 mg/kg of naloxone induced only a weak conditioned aversion to saccharin in Experiment 1, 9.6 mg/kg had a substantial effect in Experiment 2. Thus naloxone was itself an agent of aversive conditioning at a dose which significantly antagonized the aversive effects of morphine. Because of the successful demonstraion of antagonism, it was suggested that there may be common pharmacological mechanisms involved in both positive reinforcement and aversive conditioning by drugs of the opiate class.
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