DISCOVERY OF ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY BY FORCED SWIMMING TEST MAY DEPEND ON PRE-EXPOSURE OF RATS TO A STRESSFUL SITUATION
DISCOVERY OF ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY BY FORCED SWIMMING TEST MAY DEPEND ON PRE-EXPOSURE OF RATS TO A STRESSFUL SITUATION
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DOI:
10.1007/bf00442247
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发表时间:
1989-01-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
MELI, A
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作者:
BORSINI, F;LECCI, A;MELI, A
Antidepressant-induced anti-immobility effects have been assessed in animals exposed or not to a pretest session using the forced swimming test. Desipramine, maprotiline, mianserine (15 and 30 mg/kg), nomifensine (2.5 and 5 mg/kg), d-amphetamine (1 and 2 mg/kg) and muscimol (1 and 2 mg/kg), unlike imipramine (15 and 30 mg/kg), LY-171555 (0.1 and 0.2 mg/kg) and scopolamine (0.5 and 0.1 mg/kg), did not reduce immobility time in rats which had not received the pretest session. On the other hand, all of the drugs tested reduced immobility time in rats exposed to a pretest session. In addition, the degree of antiimobility effects of desipramine (20 mg/kg) and nomifensine (5 mg/kg) increased proportionally with the level of water (0.4, 15 and 30 cm) to which animals were exposed at the time of pretest. Furthermore, desipramine reduced immobility time in rats pre-exposed to types of stress different from forced swimming, cold, restraint or foot-shock. All drugs were injected intraperitoneally three times, 24, 5 and 1 h before testing. The present findings suggest that a stressful pretest session may reveal pharmacological properties of antidepressants in the forced swimming test. This is also substantiated by the fact that diazepam (2.5 and 5 mg/kg) administered 30 min before the swimming pretest antagonized the anti-immobility effect of 15 mg/kg desipramine.