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“This effect of cocaine was inhibited by pretreatment with α-methyl-p-tyrosine , haloperidol, and physostigmine, but not with FLA-63, phenoxybenzamine and tetrabenazine.”
“Even after pretreatment with α-methyl-p-tyrosine , which depletes the readily releasable pool of dopamine, cocaine was still capable of elevating dopamine levels.”
“Abstract d-… and cocaine , which are postulated to release or block the reuptake of released dopamine at nerve terminals in the brain, produced only slight reductions … serum concentrations of prolactin in normal male rats or in rats in which the prolactin concentrations were elevated by pretreatment with α-methyltyrosine.”