 Central Nervous System Depressants
"Central Nervous System Depressants" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A very loosely defined group of drugs that tend to reduce the activity of the central nervous system. The major groups included here are ethyl alcohol, anesthetics, hypnotics and sedatives, narcotics, and tranquilizing agents (antipsychotics and antianxiety agents).
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D002492
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| MeSH Number(s) |
D27.505.696.277 D27.505.954.427.210
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| 1997 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2001 | 2 | 0 | 2 | | 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 | | 2016 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Central Nervous System Depressants" by people in Profiles.
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Yoder KK, Albrecht DS, Dzemidzic M, Normandin MD, Federici LM, Graves T, Herring CM, Hile KL, Walters JW, Liang T, Plawecki MH, O'Connor S, Kareken DA. Differences in IV alcohol-induced dopamine release in the ventral striatum of social drinkers and nontreatment-seeking alcoholics. Drug Alcohol Depend. 2016 Mar 01; 160:163-9.
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Meisch RA, Gomez TH. Drug self-administration studies: a novel reinforcement schedule enhances choice. Behav Pharmacol. 2013 Jun; 24(3):155-63.
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Kosten TA, Bombace JC. Ethanol enhances naloxone sensitization and disrupts morphine discrimination--comparison to dizocilpine and pentobarbital: explanation of enhancing acute and attenuating chronic effects. Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2001 Aug; 25(6):1283-306.
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Narahashi T, Kuriyama K, Illes P, Wirkner K, Fischer W, Mühlberg K, Scheibler P, Allgaier C, Minami K, Lovinger D, Lallemand F, Ward RJ, DeWitte P, Itatsu T, Takei Y, Oide H, Hirose M, Wang XE, Watanabe S, Tateyama M, Ochi R, Sato N. Neuroreceptors and ion channels as targets of alcohol. Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2001 May; 25(5 Suppl ISBRA):182S-188S.
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Kosten TA, Haile CN, Jatlow P. Naltrexone and morphine alter the discrimination and plasma levels of ethanol. Behav Pharmacol. 1999 Feb; 10(1):1-13.
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Shoemaker WJ, Kosten TA, Muly SM. Ethanol attenuation of morphine dependence: comparison to dizocilpine. Psychopharmacology (Berl). 1997 Nov; 134(1):83-7.
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Spiga R, Macenski MJ, Meisch RA, Roache JD. Human ethanol self-administration. I: The interaction between response requirement and ethanol dose. Behav Pharmacol. 1997 Feb; 8(1):91-100.
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