PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - J E Barrett
AU  - L S Brady
AU  - J A Stanley
AU  - R S Mansbach
AU  - J M Witkin
TI  - Behavioral studies with anxiolytic drugs. II. Interactions of zopiclone with ethyl-beta-carboline-3-carboxylate and Ro 15-1788 in squirrel monkeys.
DP  - 1986 Feb 01
TA  - Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
PG  - 313--319
VI  - 236
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/236/2/313.short
4100  - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/236/2/313.full
SO  - J Pharmacol Exp Ther1986 Feb 01; 236
AB  - The effects of zopiclone (0.1-100 mg/kg) were studied alone and in combination with the benzodiazepine receptor antagonist Ro 15-1788 and the inverse agonist ethyl-beta-carboline-3-carboxylate (beta-CCE). Under one procedure, food-maintained responding of squirrel monkeys was punished during one component of a multiple schedule. Each 30th response during both components produced food and, during the punishment component, also produced electric shock. Intermediate doses of zopiclone (0.3-30 mg/kg) did not affect or decreased unpunished responding and produced large increases in punished responding; higher zopiclone doses decreased responding under both conditions. beta-CCE (0.1-3 mg/kg) reversed both the rate-increasing and the rate-decreasing effects of zopiclone under each condition, producing a dose-dependent shift to the right of the zopiclone dose-effect curves. All doses of beta-CCE higher than 0.1 mg/kg decreased responding when given alone. Ro 15-1788 (0.1 or 1 mg/kg), which had no effect on punished or unpunished responding, reversed both the rate-increasing and the rate-decreasing effects of zopiclone. Under a second procedure, zopiclone increased responding of squirrel monkeys maintained by food under a 5-min fixed-interval schedule at doses that did not affect or decreased responding comparably maintained in an alternate component by response-produced electric shock. These effects were also reversed by both Ro 15-1788 and beta-CCE. When administered alone, beta-CCE produced effects opposite those of zopiclone and the benzodiazepines by decreasing responding maintained by food and increasing shock-maintained responding.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)