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1 Sterling-Winthrop Research Institute, Rensselaer, New York
2 Department of Pharmacology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts
3,5-Dicarbomethoxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-2-methyl-9H-pyrid[3,4-b]indole possesses the capacity of provoking marked enhancement of the stimulatory influence of amphetamine on "spontaneous activity" in mice. On the other hand, it is capable of prolonging the central depression induced by ethanol, by pentobarbital and by hexobarbital.
With the isolated virgin rat uterus in estrus the compound behaves as a weak, nonspecific antagonist to 5-hydroxytryptamine. With the isolated frog sartorius muscle it exhibits pronounced anti-veratrinic properties.
Submitted on October 3, 1960