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  • Title: Prolongation of barbiturate-induced sleeping time in mice by dimethylformamide (DMF) and other non-polar solvents: absence of an effect on hepatic barbiturate-metabolising enzymes.
    Author: Weetman DF, Crossfield C.
    Journal: Methods Find Exp Clin Pharmacol; 1982; 4(2):99-103. PubMed ID: 7121125.
    Abstract:
    Prior administration of non-polar solvents was shown to prolong sleeping time in female mice induced with pentobarbitone sodium (37.5 mg/kg). The doses of solvents to double sleeping time were extrapolated from individual dose-response curves: they were (g/kg i.p.): dimethylformamide (DMF) 1.15: polyethyleneglycol 2.0: glycerol 0.66: dimethylsulphoxide 1.78: and sulpholone 1.26. The prolongation of sleeping time with DMF was not due to inhibition of hepatic microsomal enzymes because mice pretreated with SK & F 525A (40 mg/kg i.p.) did not exhibit a much greater solvent-induced effect than occurred in control (unpretreated) mice. DMF prolonged sleeping time in mice injected with thiopentone sodium (37.5 mg/kg i.v.), a drug known not to have its duration of narcotic effect determined by microsomal enzyme metabolism. It is concluded that prolongation of barbiturate-induced sleeping time in mice by DMF is not due to an inhibitory effect of the solvent on the hepatic microsomal enzymes.
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