ABSTRACT
Aim To establish a novel locomotor model based on accumulate peripheral active time percent(APATP)in ICR mice induced by pentobarbital sodium(PB)and diazepam.Methods Total distance, accumulate peripheral active time and accumulate peripheral time were aquired from video tracking system with computer, and APATP in all groups was fit and got correspondent parameters with Drugs Analysis System 2.0. Logarithm of area under the curve(lgAUC_(0-60)), minimum APATP(lgP_(min)), and half time of steady-state locomotor activity(T_(1/2α)) were ready for evaluation.Results APATP decreased with time increasing in all groups gradually, and PB 10 mg·kg~(-1) and PB 15 mg·kg~(-1) had similar tendency.PB 10 mg·kg~(-1) and PB 15 mg·kg~(-1) all decreased APATP significantly throughout the time course.APATP in all mice was fit to kinetics equation.Compared with norm group, PB 5 mg·kg~(-1) decreased three parameters slightly(all P >0.05), and PB 10 mg·kg~(-1) and PB 15 mg·kg~(-1) had similar tendency.PB 10 mg·kg~(-1) (all P <0.05) and PB 15 mg·kg~(-1) (P <0.01, P <0.01 and P >0.05)decreased parameters.Compared with PB 10 mg·kg~(-1) , PB 15 mg·kg~(-1) increased reversely(P >0.05, P <0.05 and P <0.05).lgAUC_(0-60) and lgPmin were both linar with total distance(r 2=1.0000 and r 2=0.9995, both P <0.01), T_(1/2α) also showed similar tendcency as well as total distance.Refering PB 10 mg·kg~(-1) as positive drugs and norm as negative control, diazepam 2 mg·kg~(-1) and 4 mg·kg~(-1) depressed all parameters significantly compared with norm group(all P <0.01) and were similar as PB 10 mg·kg~(-1) , which indicated that sedative effect of diazepam was the same as PB 10 mg·kg~(-1) .Conclusion Locomotor activity model based on APATP may be used to evaluate drug effects on lomocotor activity induced by sedative hypnotics.