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  • Title: Cholinergic modulation of oral activity in drug-naive and chronic haloperidol-treated rats.
    Author: See RE, Chapman MA.
    Journal: Pharmacol Biochem Behav; 1991 May; 39(1):49-54. PubMed ID: 1924511.
    Abstract:
    The cholinergic agonists pilocarpine, physostigmine, oxotremorine, and arecoline were administered IP at various doses to rats. Oral activity was assessed in these animals with a computerized video analysis system that determined the number and form of jaw openings and closings (computer scored movelets "CSMs"). The different cholinergic drugs produced distinctive changes in the number of CSMs at various amplitudes and in the frequency distribution of CSMs as determined by fast fourier analysis. Rats treated for 28 weeks with haloperidol showed a previously described, late onset oral dyskinesia characterized by increases in small amplitude CSMs, decreases in CSM slope, increased energy at the 1-3 Hz range and decreased energy at the 5-7 Hz range. Administration of pilocarpine (1.0 mg/kg) reversed all of these effects, while the anticholinergic drug, scopolamine (0.05 mg/kg), had no effect. These results indicate that different cholinomimetics can uniquely alter oral activity in rats and that symptoms of late onset, neuroleptic-induced oral dyskinesia are modified by a cholinergic agonist.
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