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  • Title: Discriminative stimulus effects of the PCP/sigma-ligand (+)-N-allylnormetazocine in monkeys.
    Author: Holtzman SG.
    Journal: Pharmacol Biochem Behav; 1993 Feb; 44(2):349-55. PubMed ID: 8446667.
    Abstract:
    (+)-N-Allylnormetazocine [(+)-NANM] binds to both the phencyclidine (PCP) receptor and the sigma-site in brain, with some selectivity for the latter. In rats, the discriminative stimulus effects of (+)-NANM are primarily PCP like. The present study was performed to determine if the discriminative effects of (+)-NANM in a primate species might reflect the actions of this drug at the sigma-site. Six squirrel monkeys were trained to discriminate between IM injections of saline and 1.0 mg/kg (+)-NANM in a two-choice discrete-trial avoidance procedure. In tests of stimulus generalization, dose-dependent increases in trials completed on the (+)-NANM choice lever were produced by (+)- and (-)-NANM, by PCP and the PCP-like drugs MK-801 and thienylcyclohexyl-piperidine, and by the opioids (+)- and (-)-cyclazocine and dextrorphan; order of potency correlated with reported affinities for the PCP receptor. High-affinity sigma-ligands, (+)-pentazocine, 1,3-di-ortho-tolylguanidine (DTG), haloperidol, and BMY 14802, as well as agonists at mu- and kappa-opioid receptors, occasioned selection of the saline-appropriate choice lever. Selection of the (+)-NANM choice lever was reduced by up to 35-50% when 1.0 mg/kg (+)-NANM was given concurrently with haloperidol or BMY 14802, but was not affected substantially by (-)-butaclamol, another sigma-ligand, or by naltrexone, an opioid antagonist. The discriminative effects of (+)-NANM in squirrel monkeys appear to be mediated largely by the PCP receptor and not by the sigma-site or opioid receptors.
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