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Discriminated taste aversion with chlordiazepoxide.

F Woudenberg1, T H Hijzen

  • 1Netherlands Institute for Drugs and Doping Research, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands.

Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior
|August 1, 1991
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Researchers rapidly trained rats to discriminate chlordiazepoxide (CDP) from vehicle using taste aversion. The drug cue showed similar specificity to other methods, but the procedure has drawbacks.

Area of Science:

  • Pharmacology
  • Behavioral Neuroscience
  • Drug Discrimination

Background:

  • Discriminative stimulus effects are commonly studied using operant procedures.
  • Discriminated taste aversion (DTA) offers faster training but slower testing.
  • Previous research highlights the need for efficient drug discrimination methods.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate a modified DTA procedure with accelerated testing (2 tests/5 days).
  • To assess the specificity of drug cues generated by the DTA method.
  • To compare the DTA procedure's efficiency and specificity against traditional methods.

Main Methods:

  • Rats were trained to discriminate chlordiazepoxide (CDP) from vehicle using a DTA paradigm.
  • Taste aversion was conditioned by pairing CDP injections with lithium chloride (LiCl).

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  • Substitution tests were conducted using the accelerated DTA testing schedule.

    • Main Results:

    • Rapid discrimination of CDP from vehicle was achieved within seven pairings.
    • Substitution tests revealed that diazepam and pentobarbital mimicked the CDP cue.
    • The CDP cue generated via DTA demonstrated specificity comparable to two-response operant procedures.

    Conclusions:

    • The DTA procedure enables rapid training for drug discrimination.
    • The DTA-generated chlordiazepoxide cue exhibits specific discriminative properties.
    • Despite rapid training, the DTA procedure's overall advantage over operant methods remains questionable due to testing limitations.