Abstract
The behavioral effects of d-amphetamine and apomorphine administration were studied in 17 adult cats. The doses of amphetamine administered were 0.1, 0.5, 1.0 and 5.0 mg/kg; those of apomorphine, 0.1, 0.5, 1.0 and 2.0 mg/kg. These two drugs evoked in the same animal market differences in behavioral responses. Amphetamine induced a dose-dependent hypomotility, which was marked with the higher doses. In addition, rhythmic, bilateral slow movements of the head as a mode of stereotypy, indifference to the environment and dose-dependent increase in respiratory rate. Apomorphine elicited limb flicking, dose-dependent hypermotility and increase in olfactory behavior, the last two reactions with stereotypy characteristics. The animals appeared as if being scared, hyperreacting to sudden stimuli and showing total indifference to the surrounding environment. There were marked differences in behavioral responses evoked by these two agonists of the catecholaminergic system. These data do not conform with the behavioral reactions reported in the rat by other investigators. The disagreement with other communications is probably due to differences in reactivity of the species employed. The processes involved in the diversity of the behavioral responses of the cat to the administration of amphetamine and apomorphine have not been delucidated.
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