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Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior | 1987

Relationship between minimum reinforcing doses and injection speed in cocaine and pentobarbital self-administration in crab-eating monkeys

Shin Kato; Yoshio Wakasa; Tomoji Yanagita

The relationship between minimum reinforcing doses and injection speed was investigated by using 2 levels of speeds in experiments on self-administration of cocaine or pentobarbital in 2 crab-eating monkeys each. The experiments were conducted under a fixed ratio (FR) 1 schedule with 30-min time-out after each drug injection, wherein the drugs and saline were made available for alternate 5-day periods. The minimum reinforcing doses at each injection speed were determined by the titration procedure in which the presence or absence of reinforcing effect at a particular drug dose was judged based on comparison of the self-administration rate at that dose with the rate in the preceding saline period. The results showed that the minimum reinforcing doses of cocaine and pentobarbital tended to be higher in inverse proportion to the injection speed of the drugs.


Pharmacology, Biochemistry and Behavior | 1980

Drug dependence potential of viloxazine hydrochloride tested in rhesus monkeys

Tomoji Yanagita; Yoshio Wakasa; Hiroko Kiyohara

The drug dependence potential of viloxazine was tested in 5 experiments on rhesus monkeys. In gross behavioral observation of normal monkeys the acute CNS effects of the drug were found to be very weak. Decrement of spontaneous motor activity and occasional eye-closing were observed with single doses higher than 16 mg/kg IV, IM and 128 mg/kg PO, while convulsions and death occured at 64 mg/kg IV and IM. Viloxazine did not suppress the morphine and barbital withdrawal signs in monkeys that had been made physically dependent on these drugs and withdrawal. In the test for physical dependence by repeated administration of the drug at 16 mg/kg IM twice daily for 31 days in normal monkeys, no observable withdrawal sign was developed in the naloxone precipitation and natural withdrawal tests. In intravenous self-administration experiments, a weak reinforcing effect was demonstrated in some monkeys, but the effect was extremely weak. Thus, viloxazine was found to be physical dependence-free and its overall dependence potential was regarded as very low.


Journal of Pharmacological Sciences | 2016

Nalfurafine hydrochloride, a selective κ opioid receptor agonist, has no reinforcing effect on intravenous self-administration in rhesus monkeys

Kaoru Nakao; Mikito Hirakata; Yohei Miyamoto; Mie Kainoh; Yoshio Wakasa; Tomoji Yanagita

Nalfurafine hydrochloride [(E)-N-[17-(cyclopropylmethyl)-4,5α-epoxy-3,14-dihydroxymorphinan-6β-yl]-3-(furan-3-yl)-N-methylprop-2-enamide monohydrochloride; nalfurafine] is used in Japan as an antipruritic for the treatment of intractable pruritus in patients undergoing hemodialysis or with chronic liver disease. It is a potent and selective agonist at the κ opioid receptor, but also has weak and partial agonist activity at μ opioid receptors. Opioids, especially those acting at μ receptors, carry a risk of abuse. This is an important factor in the consideration of therapeutic risk vs. benefit in clinical use and the potential for misuse as a public health problem. It is therefore necessary to carefully evaluate the reinforcing effects of nalfurafine. To this end, we investigated intravenous self-administration of nalfurafine in rhesus monkeys. The number of self-administration of nalfurafine at doses of 0.0625, 0.125 and 0.25 μg/kg/infusion was not higher than that of saline in rhesus monkeys that frequently self-administered pentazocine (0.25 mg/kg/infusion). These results indicate that nalfurafine has no reinforcing effect in rhesus monkeys in the intravenous self-administration paradigm.


Archive | 1995

Behavioral and Biochemical Analysis of the Dependence Properties of Nicotine

Tomoji Yanagita; Kiyoshi Ando; Yoshio Wakasa; Akira Shimada

Our recent studies on the reinforcing properties and psychotoxicity of nicotine in rats and rhesus monkeys are introduced. In drug discrimination experiments in rats, the discriminative effects of subcutaneous nicotine were generalized by the nicotine injected into nucleus accumbens or medical prefrontal cortex. In microdialysis in rats, nicotine increased dopamine (DA) and DOPAC at nucleus accumbens and striatum. In self-administration experiments in monkeys, faster infusion speeds resulted in higher intake rates of nicotine and possible development of physical dependence attenuated monkey’s nicotine-seeking behavior. The threshold dose for reinforcing effect of nicotine was found to be 2.5-10 µg/kg.


Archive | 1991

Nicotine-Seeking Behavior in Rhesus Monkeys

Tomoji Yanagita; Kiyoshi Ando; Yoshio Wakasa; K. Takada

Nicotine-seeking behavior was studied in rhesus monkeys mainly in intravenous self-administration experiments on nicotine and partly in cigarette-smoking experiments. As a result, the nicotine-seeking behavior by the intravenous route was observed mostly in the daytime with a relatively stable daily pattern, but by the smoking route such behavior was unstable from day to day. The intensity of the intravenous drug-seeking behavior for nicotine observed in a progressive ratio experiment was found to be quite strong but weaker than that for morphine or cocaine. Pretreatment with frequent intravenous doses of nicotine for 4 weeks did not enhance the intensity. This result demonstrates marked difference between physical dependence on opiates such as morphine or codeine and on nicotine. For analysis of nicotine-seeking behavior, serum nicotine level at the time of lever pressing for nicotine was determined. The result may indicate that the nicotine- seeking behavior is triggered by lowering of the serum nicotine level, which is proportional to the maintained dose level. Also analyzed were the intravenous threshold doses of nicotine in self-administration experiments and in drug discrimination experiments. The threshold dose for reinforcement in the former experiments and that for discrimination in the latter were quite close each other. This result may support the observation that nicotine-seeking behavior is developed as a consequence of its subjective effects.


Japanese journal of psychopharmacology | 1995

Reinforcing effect as a function of infusion speed in intravenous self-administration of nicotine in rhesus monkeys.

Yoshio Wakasa; Kohji Takada; Tomoji Yanagita


Life Sciences | 2004

Inhibitory effects of TRK-820 on systemic skin scratching induced by morphine in rhesus monkeys.

Yoshio Wakasa; Atsushi Fujiwara; Hideo Umeuchi; Takashi Endoh; Kiyoshi Okano; Toshiaki Tanaka; Hiroshi Nagase


Journal of Toxicological Sciences | 2011

Genotoxicity studies of 2,6-dinitrotoluene (2,6-DNT)

Hiroshi Suzuki; Tadashi Imamura; Akiko Koeda; Kiyoshi Morimoto; Yoshio Wakasa; Yoshihiro Takei; Rie Amemiya; Hirofumi Hatakeyama; Hiroshi Satoh; Shinichi Sato


Journal of Toxicological Sciences | 2009

A new behavioral test for assessment of drug effects on attentional performance and its validity in cynomolgus monkeys

Atsushi Fujiwara; Masahiko Iino; Mikio Sasaki; Naoyuki Hironaka; Yoshio Wakasa


Japanese journal of psychopharmacology | 2007

Effects of ifenprodil on the discriminative stimulus effects of cocaine in rhesus monkeys.

Fujiwara A; Yoshio Wakasa; Naoyuki Hironaka; Sasaki M; Iino M; Tomoji Yanagita

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Tomoji Yanagita

Central Institute for Experimental Animals

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Kiyoshi Ando

Central Institute for Experimental Animals

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Naoyuki Hironaka

Central Institute for Experimental Animals

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Akira Shimada

Central Institute for Experimental Animals

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Hiroko Kiyohara

Central Institute for Experimental Animals

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K. Takada

Central Institute for Experimental Animals

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