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- From: andersom@spot.Colorado.EDU (Marc Anderson)
- Subject: Re: Info on methcathinone
- Message-ID: <1993Jul1.222440.8062@ucsu.Colorado.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 1 Jul 1993 22:24:40 GMT
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- medline only has two entries for 'methcathinone', both of which follow:
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- AU - Glennon RA
- AU - Yousif M
- AU - Naiman N
- AU - Kalix P
- TI - Methcathinone: a new and potent amphetamine-like agent.
- AB - The purpose of the present investigation was to examine the effect of
- N-monomethylation of phenylisopropylamine derivatives on amphetamine-
- like activity. In tests of stimulus generalization using rats trained
- to discriminate 1.0 mg/kg of (+)-amphetamine from saline, the N-
- monomethyl derivatives of 1-(X-phenyl)-2-aminopropane, where X = 2,4-
- dimethoxy (2,4-DMA), 3,4-dimethoxy (3,4-DMA), 2,4,5-trimethoxy
- (2,4,5,-TMA), and 2-methoxy-4,5-methylenedioxy (MMDA-2), did not
- produce amphetamine-appropriate responding at the doses evaluated.
- However, the N-monomethyl derivative of cathinone (i.e.,
- methcathinone), like cathinone, resulted in stimulus generalization.
- Further studies with this agent revealed that (a) in the amphetamine-
- trained animals, methcathinone (ED50 = 0.37 mg/kg) is more potent
- than racemic cathinone or racemic amphetamine (ED50 = 0.71 mg/kg in
- both cases), (b) methcathinone is capable of inducing release of
- radioactivity from [3H]dopamine-prelabeled tissue of rat caudate
- nucleus in a manner similar to that observed with cathinone,
- amphetamine, and methamphetamine, and (c) methcathinone is more
- potent than cathinone as a locomotor stimulant in mice as determined
- by their effect on spontaneous activity. The results of the present
- study provide evidence for a structural analogy between the
- prototypic psychostimulants amphetamine/methamphetamine and
- cathinone/methcathinone, and lend further support to the concept that
- amphetamine and cathinone correspond in their pharmacological
- effects.
- SO - Pharmacol Biochem Behav 1987 Mar;26(3):547-51
- DP - 1987 Mar
- TA - Pharmacol Biochem Behav
- PG - 547-51
- IP - 3
- VI - 26
- IS - 0091-3057
- UI - 87204443
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- AU - Goldstone MS
- TI - 'Cat': methcathinone--a new drug of abuse [letter]
- AB - [No Abstract Available]
- SO - JAMA 1993 May 19;269(19):2508
- DP - 1993 May 19
- TA - JAMA
- PG - 2508
- IP - 19
- VI - 269
- IS - 0098-7484
- UI - 93253905
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- From: ebrandt@jarthur.cs.hmc.edu (Eli Brandt)
- Newsgroups: alt.drugs
- Subject: Re: Homemade cat
- Date: 10 Jun 1994 03:51:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <2t8o0r$kjb@jaws.cs.hmc.edu>
-
- In article <135322Z09061994@anon.penet.fi>, Mud Phud <an97259@anon.penet.fi> wrote:
- >I found it to be much, much weaker than meth. The onset is slightly
- >slower (nasal route), there is no euphoria/rush, the high is like a
- >buzz with some of the heightened concentration and detail perception
- >ability, and the effects don't last as long as meth. I had no trouble
- >sleeping at night, unlike with a meth high.
- >
- >My question to the expert chemists in the group is why this might
- >be so. The cat refs on hmc seem to indicate that methcathinone and
- >methamphetamine should have equivalent or nearly equivalent effects.
-
- Maybe not. I have some notes comparing cathinone (the active principle
- of qat) with amphetamine. Rosecran et al. found that cathinone lacked
- DA agonist activity, and showed less disruption of behavior in animal
- studies. This is in Harris (ed.), _Problems of drug dependence_, NIDA,
- Monograph #27. I don't know whether this generalizes to methcathinone.
-
- Eli ebrandt@hmc.edu
- finger for PGP key.
- The above text is worth
- precisely its weight in gold.
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