Are Females More Sensitive to MDMA-Related Discriminative Stimuli?
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are examples of interoceptive cues which enable experienced users to distinguish the effects of MDMA from those of other drugs. Serotonin neurotransmission positively modulates the release of oxytocin into plasma [2]. To test the hypothesis that oxytocin receptor activation contributes to the interoceptive cues of MDMA in male and female rats, two peptidic oxytocin receptor ligands, the agonist carbetocin [3] and antagonist atosiban [4], were utilised in a 3-way drug discrimination paradigm [5].
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