The experiments with 9 phenylethylamine-derivatives on cats confirm that the occupation of the para-position in the phenol-ring by an OCH3-group is essential to produce a Hypokinetic Rigid Syndrome (H.R.S.). Treating cats with molecular equivalent doses, the duration of this syndrome can be prolonged when OCH3-groups are occupying, apart from the para-position, other places adjacent to the paraposition as well. A striking parallelism of mydriasis and salivation with the H.R.S., both in duration and intensity, was noted.
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Department of Pharmacology, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
A. M. Ernst
Ernst, A.M. Relation between the structure of certain methoxyphenylethylaminederivatives and the occurrence of a Hypokinetic Rigid Syndrome. Psychopharmacologia 7, 383–390 (1965). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402360
Received: 19 September 1964
Issue Date: November 1965
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00402360
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