Discriminative stimulus properties of a new anxiolytic, DN-2327, in rats.
In an operant learning lever-pressing procedure on an FR10 schedule of milk reinforcement, male Wistar rats were trained to discriminate between saline and 3 mg/kg IP DN-2327, a new anxiolytic which acts on benzodiazepine receptors, 3 mg/kg IP diazepam or 15 mg/kg IP pentylenetetrazol (PTZ). More than 80% appropriate lever responding was established after 27, 38 and 44 daily training sessions with DN-2327, diazepam and PTZ, respectively, as the training drug. Although rats trained with DN-2327 dose-dependently generalized to various doses of DN-2327 and diazepam, the cue of DN-2327 was more potent than that of diazepam: ED50 values of DN-2327 and diazepam for stimulus generalization were 0.30 and 0.66 mg/kg, respectively. These animals partially generalized to pentobarbital (1-10 mg/kg) but did not generalize to buspirone (0.1-10 mg/kg). Rats trained with diazepam dose-dependently generalized to various doses of DN-2327, diazepam and pentobarbital with ED50 values of 0.51, 0.47 and 4.5 mg/kg, respectively, but did not generalize to buspirone. In rats trained with PTZ, DN-2327 and diazepam antagonized the discriminative stimulus produced by 15 mg/kg PTZ in a dose-dependent manner with ED50 values of 0.27 and 0.83 mg/kg, respectively, but buspirone neither antagonized nor was able to substitute for the PTZ-induced stimulus. The cue of DN-2327 was antagonized by flumazenil dose-dependently as was that of diazepam.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Pharmaceutical Research Laboratories, Takeda Chemical Industries, Ltd., Osaka, Japan.
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D000818:Animals; D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents / Q000494:pharmacology*; D002065:Buspirone / Q000494:pharmacology; D003463:Cues; D003975:Diazepam / Q000494:pharmacology; D004192:Discrimination, Psychological / Q000187:drug effects*; D004305:Dose-Response Relationship, Drug; D005442:Flumazenil / Q000494:pharmacology; D005795:Generalization, Stimulus / Q000187:drug effects; D054833:Isoindoles; D008297:Male; D009287:Naphthyridines / Q000494:pharmacology*; D010424:Pentobarbital / Q000494:pharmacology; D010433:Pentylenetetrazole / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000494:pharmacology; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013141:Spiro Compounds / Q000494:pharmacology*
D014151:Anti-Anxiety Agents; D054833:Isoindoles; D009287:Naphthyridines; D013141:Spiro Compounds; D005442:Flumazenil; D010424:Pentobarbital; C060382:pazinaclone; D003975:Diazepam; D002065:Buspirone; D010433:Pentylenetetrazole