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Effect of pretreatment with tryptamine, tryptophan and DOPA on LSD reaction in tropical fish

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Neither pretreatment with DOPA, tryptamine or tryptophan affects in any way the reactions of Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta splendens), White Clouds (Tanichthys albonubes), or Guppies (Lebistes reticulatus) to LSD, or the persistence of these reactions after removal from LSD.

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  1. Veterans Administration Research Hospital and Northwestern University Medical School, Chicago 11, Illinois

    Richard D. Chessick, Jean Kronholm, Mortimer Beck & George Maier

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Chessick, R.D., Kronholm, J., Beck, M. et al. Effect of pretreatment with tryptamine, tryptophan and DOPA on LSD reaction in tropical fish. Psychopharmacologia 5, 390–392 (1964). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00441449

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