title: Dose-catalepsy response to haloperidol in rat: effects of strain and sex.
abstract: Haloperidol induced catalepsy with a continuous dose-response between 0 or 0.03 and 10 mg/kg, IP in Brown Norway (BN), Fischer (FR). Long-Evans (LE), and Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats, with similar ED50 values for males (0.23-0.42 mg/kg), and generally greater but more varied drug sensitivity in females (ED50 = 0.13-0.45 mg/kg). Inconsistent findings regarding a biphasic dose-effect relationship in SD male and LE female rats led to testing both sexes and strains up to 200 mg/kg. Females showed a greater tendency than males of both strains to yield lower catalepsy scores at doses greater than 10 mg/kg, but in association with gross neurological toxicity. This paradigm evidently is not an adequate model for a proposed biphasic relationship between doses of high potency neuroleptic agents and acute dystonia in man.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Campbell
authors.forename: R J
authors.initials: RJ
authors.lastname: Baldessarini
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Cremens
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002375:Catalepsy / Q000139:chemically induced*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005260:Female; D006220:Haloperidol / Q000494:pharmacology*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D012737:Sex Factors; D013045:Species Specificity
chemical_list: D006220:Haloperidol