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  • Title: An evaluation of the elevated plus-maze test using the novel anxiolytic buspirone.
    Author: Moser PC.
    Journal: Psychopharmacology (Berl); 1989; 99(1):48-53. PubMed ID: 2528779.
    Abstract:
    Previous work suggests that the elevated plus-maze test of anxiety is insensitive to the anxiolytic effects of the novel anxiolytic buspirone, which shows an anxiogenic-like profile in this test. This paper examines some of the possible reasons for this and the role that buspirone's agonist activity at 5-HT1A receptors plays in this effect. A variety of 5-HT1A receptor agonists (p-aminophenylethyl-m-trifluromethylphenyl piperazine, (+)- and (-)-MDL 72832) showed similar activity to buspirone, as did the related compound ipsapirone. (-)-MDL 72832 was more potent than (+)-MDL 72832, in keeping with its stereoselective action at 5-HT1A receptors. The alpha 2-adrenoceptor antagonist properties of 1-pyrimidinyl piperazine, a metabolite of buspirone, did not appear to be relevant to this action of buspirone as neither it nor idazoxan showed an anxiogenic-like profile. Neither chronic treatment with buspirone (1 mg/kg SC twice a day for 16 days) nor depletion of 5-HT with p-chlorophenylalanine changed the anxiogenic-like activity of buspirone in the elevated plus-maze test. These results suggest that an agonist action at postsynaptic 5-HT1A receptors mediates the anxiogenic-like effects of buspirone in the elevated plus-maze test and that this test may either be insensitive to certain classes of anxiolytics or is measuring something unrelated to human anxiety states.
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