A proposal for refining the forced swim test in Swiss mice

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• 作者：Ana Paula Ramos Costa ; Cintia Vieira ; Lauren O.L. Bohner ; Cristiane Felisbino Silva ; Evelyn Cristina da Silva Santos ; Thereza Christina Monteiro De Lima ; Cilene Lino-de-Oliveira
• 关键词：ANOVA ; Analysis of Variance ; CD-1 ; Outbred Strain of mice from Charles River Laboratory ; CEUA ; Ethics Committee on Animal Use ; C57Bl6/J ; Inbred Strain of mice from The Jackson Laboratory ; EV ; Eingenvectors ; FST ; Forced Swimming Test ; MANOVA ; Multivariate
• 刊名：Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry
• 出版年：2013
• 出版时间：1 August, 2013
• 年：2013
• 卷：45
• 期：Complete
• 页码：150-155
• 全文大小：656 K

文摘

The forced swim test (FST) is a preclinical test to the screening of antidepressants based on rats or mice behaviours, which is also sensitive to stimulants of motor activity. This work standardised and validated a method to register the active and passive behaviours of Swiss mice during the FST in order to strength the specificity of the test. Adult male Swiss mice were subjected to the FST for 6 min without any treatment or after intraperitoneal injection of saline (0.1 ml/10 g), antidepressants (imipramine, desipramine, or fluoxetine, 30 mg/kg) or stimulants (caffeine, 30 mg/kg or apomorphine, 10 mg/kg). The latency, frequency and duration of behaviours (immobility, swimming, and climbing) were scored and summarised in bins of 6, 4, 2 or 1 min. Parameters were first analysed using Principal Components Analysis generating components putatively related to antidepressant (first and second) or to stimulant effects (third). Antidepressants and stimulants affected similarly the parameters grouped into all components. Effects of stimulants on climbing were better distinguished of antidepressants when analysed during the last 4 min of the FST. Surprisingly, the effects of antidepressants on immobility were better distinguished from saline when parameters were scored in the first 2 min. The method proposed here is able to distinguish antidepressants from stimulants of motor activity using Swiss mice in the FST. This refinement should reduce the number of mice used in preclinical evaluation of antidepressants.