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Jessica A Burket1, John Mastropaolo, Richard B Rosse
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 825 Fairfax Avenue, Suite 710, Norfolk, Virginia 23507-1912, United States.
Abstract:
NR2B-subtype-selective antagonists differ from MK-801, a nonselective NMDA receptor antagonist. MK-801 antagonizes electrical seizures at doses as low as 0.1 to 0.18mg/kg and elicits popping at doses as low as 0.5mg/kg, whereas ifenprodil and Ro 8-4304 were unable to do so at the doses tested. Ro 25-6981, however, was able to antagonize electrically-precipitated tonic hindlimb extension at 100mg/kg, but was not able to elicit popping behavior at this dose.
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