Mephedrone (“bath salt”) pharmacology: insights from invertebrates
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Mephedrone ("bath salt") pharmacology: insights from invertebrates.
Psychoactive bath salts (also called meph, drone, meow meow, m-CAT, bounce, bubbles, mad cow, etc.) contain a substance called mephedrone (4-methylcathinone) that may share psychostimulant properties with amphetamine and cocaine. However, there are only limited studies of the neuropharmacological profile of mephedrone. The present study used an established invertebrate (planarian) assay to test...
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عنوان ژورنال: Neuroscience
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0306-4522
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.01.019