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Pharmacology, Biochemistry, and Behavior
|February 1, 1981
Abstract:
The effects of four antidepressant drugs with different mechanisms of action on shock-induced fighting between pairs of rats were determined. Amitriptyline, imipramine, mianserin and iprindole, given chronically, facilitated fighting behavior.

