PMID: 3747717Sep 15, 1986Paper

Marked variation in diazepam sensitivity in Swiss albino mice

Life Sciences
P T WongM C Gwee

Abstract

Using the righting reflex as the critical level, sleep was measured in Swiss albino mice at a dose of 35 mg/kg diazepam, i.p. Sleep times varied markedly from zero to 120 min with a mean +/- s.d. of 44 +/- 37 (N = 202). The distribution is skewed to the left with a coefficient of skewness of 0.33 +/- 0.17. The sleep times of the two sexes, when analyzed separately, showed similar range, mean and s.d., except that the distribution tended to be more clearly bimodal in males than in females. These animals also exhibited marked variations in their response to either ethanol (4 g/kg) or pentobarbital (45 mg/kg). The diazepam sleep time failed to correlate with the ethanol sleep time. Significant correlation, however, was obtained between diazepam and pentobarbital sleep times. On further analysis with least-squares fit to a straight line, the data yielded a line with a slope of 0.16; thus despite the correlation reaching a significant level, there is no significant difference in the pentobarbital sleep times between mice that have the longest or the shortest diazepam sleep times. By monitoring the plasma and brain levels of diazepam and N-desmethyldiazepam in mice at awakening, it was found that the variations in sleep time cannot b...Continue Reading

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