The effects of noribogaine and harmaline in rats trained with ibogaine as a discriminative stimulus

Life Sci. 1997;60(9):PL147-53. doi: 10.1016/s0024-3205(96)00703-5.

Abstract

In the present investigation, Fischer-344 rats were trained to discriminate 10.0 mg/kg of ibogaine from water using a pretreatment time of 60 minutes. Analysis of dose response data generated an ED50 of 4.6 mg/kg. The time course of the ibogaine (10.0 mg/kg) cue was also determined. The stimulus reached a maximum level of 94% ibogaine-appropriate responding at the 60-min pretreatment time. This was followed by a time-dependent decrease in ibogaine-appropriate responding. At a pretreatment time of 8 hrs only 6.4% drug-appropriate responding was observed. In substitution experiments, intermediate generalization was observed with a metabolite of ibogaine, 12-hydroxyibogamine [noribogaine] (71.6%) whereas complete generalization was seen with harmaline (83.5%).

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Discrimination Learning / drug effects*
  • Discrimination Learning / physiology
  • Hallucinogens / pharmacology
  • Harmaline / pharmacology*
  • Humans
  • Ibogaine / analogs & derivatives*
  • Ibogaine / pharmacology*
  • Male
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred F344
  • Substance-Related Disorders / drug therapy
  • Time Factors

Substances

  • Hallucinogens
  • Ibogaine
  • noribogaine
  • Harmaline