Chronic Amphetamine Facilitates Immunosuppression in Response to a Novel Aversive Stimulus: Reversal by Haloperidol Pretreatment

ANA M. BASSO,GABRIELA GIOINO, VÍCTOR A. MOLINA AND LILIANA M. CANCELA

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD

Año: 1999 vol. 62 p. 307 - 307

font face="TimesTen-Roman" size="1"> BASSO, A. M., G. GIOINO, V. A. MOLINA AND L. M. CANCELA. Chronic amphetamine facilitates immunosuppression in response to a novel aversive stimulus: Reversal by haloperidol pretreatment. PHARMACOL BIOCHEM BEHAV 62 (2) 307–314, 1999.—The effect of chronic d -amphetamine sulfate (AMPH) treatment (nine daily injections, 2 mg/kg IP) on subsequent foot shock stress-induced immunological response was investigated. In addition, the potential role of a dopaminergic (DA) mec