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Characteristic behavioural alterations in rats induced by rolipram and other selective adenosine cyclic 3', 5'-monophosphate phosphodiesterase inhibitors.

Abstract
The significance of a characteristic symptomatology (hypothermia, hypoactivity, forepaw shaking, grooming, head twitches) as a potential in vivo correlate of enhanced availability of brain adenosine cyclic 3',5'-monophosphate (cAMP) was examined in rats following systemic administration of various doses of dibutyryladenosine cAMP (dBcAMP) or of the phosphodiesterase (PDE) inhibitors rolipram, Ro 20-1724, ICI 63-197, isobutylmethylxanthine (IBMX) theophylline, cartazolate, and papaverine. The various PDE inhibitors could be assigned to three groups according to the pattern of behavioral alterations they induced. Rolipram, Ro 20-1724, and ICI 63-197 (group 1) caused hypothermia, hypoactivity, forepaw shaking, grooming, and head twitches. All behavioral effects were mimicked by dBcAMP but not dBcGMP. The order of potency and effective dosage range to induce the behavioral alterations were, in descending order, rolipram (0.09-1453 mumol/kg IP), ICI 63-197 (0.48-119 mumol/kg IP), Ro 20-1724 (5.6-1438 mumol/kg IP), corresponding with the recently reported efficacy of the drugs to elevate rat brain cAMP in vivo. Comparatively high doses of the alkylxanthine PDE inhibitors IBMX and theophylline (group 2) caused hypothermia, forepaw shaking, grooming, and head twitches concomitantly with a decline of the motor stimulatory effect, suggesting enhanced availability of brain cAMP. The order of potency and the effective dosage range to induce the behavioral alterations were, in descending order, IBMX (28.1-113 mumol/kg IP) and theophylline (139-555 mumol/kg IP). The third group, papaverine (295-1179 mumol/kg IP) and cartazolate (21.5-345 mumol/kg IP), caused only hypothermia and hypoactivity. The differences in the behavioral pattern of the two latter groups of compounds in comparison with dBcAMP and the selective cAMP PDE inhibitors are discussed with regard to their additional interference with adenosine actions besides their nonselective PDE inhibitory action.
AuthorsH Wachtel
JournalPsychopharmacology (Psychopharmacology (Berl)) Vol. 77 Issue 4 Pg. 309-16 ( 1982) ISSN: 0033-3158 [Print] Germany
PMID6182575 (Publication Type: Journal Article)
Chemical References
  • Imidazoles
  • Pyrimidines
  • Pyrrolidinones
  • ICI 63197
  • 4-(3-Butoxy-4-methoxybenzyl)-2-imidazolidinone
  • Bucladesine
  • 3',5'-Cyclic-AMP Phosphodiesterases
  • Rolipram
  • 1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthine
Topics
  • 1-Methyl-3-isobutylxanthine (pharmacology)
  • 3',5'-Cyclic-AMP Phosphodiesterases (antagonists & inhibitors)
  • 4-(3-Butoxy-4-methoxybenzyl)-2-imidazolidinone (pharmacology)
  • Animals
  • Behavior, Animal (drug effects)
  • Body Temperature (drug effects)
  • Bucladesine (pharmacology)
  • Imidazoles (pharmacology)
  • Male
  • Motor Activity (drug effects)
  • Pyrimidines (pharmacology)
  • Pyrrolidinones (pharmacology)
  • Rats
  • Rats, Inbred Strains
  • Rolipram

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