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INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGICAL AND BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE
Volume 38, Issue 2, Pages 133-145Publisher
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DOI: 10.1007/BF02688831
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classical conditioning; nausea; emesis; taste avoidance learning; taste aversion learning; cannabinoids; taste reactivity
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Considerable evidence indicates that conditioned gaping in rats reflects nausea in this species that does not vomit. A series of experiments evaluated the potential of psychoactive cannabinoid agonists, Delta-9-THC and HU-210, and non-psychoactive cannabinoids, Cannabidiol (CBD) and its dimethylheptyl homolog (CBD-dmh), to interfere with the establishment and the expression of conditioned gaping in rats. All agents attenuated both the establishment and the expression of conditioned gaping. Furthermore, the CB I antagonist, SR-141716, reversed the suppressive effect of HU-210 on conditioned gaping. Finally, SR-141716 potentiated lithium-induced conditioned gaping, suggesting that the endogenous cannabinoid system plays a role in the control of nausea.
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