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BACKGROUND:Carbamates physostigmine and pyridostigmine have been used as a pretreatment against poisoning with nerve agents in order to reversibly inhibit and thus protect from irreversible inhibition a portion of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in brain and respiratory muscles that is crucial for survival. Memantine, an adamantine derivative, has emerged as a promising alternative to carbamates, since it prevented the fasciculations and skeletal muscle necrosis induced by carbamates and organophosphates, including nerve agents. AIM:This experimental study was undertaken in order to investigate and compare the protective and behavioural effects of memantine and standard carbamates physostigmine and pyridostigmine in rats poisoned with soman and treated with atropine, oxime HI-6 and diazepam. Another goal was to elucidate the mechanisms of the antidotal effect of memantine and its potential synergism with standard antidotes against nerve agents. MATERIALS AND METHODS:Male Wistar rats were used throughout the experiments. In dose-finding experiments memantine was administered at dose interval 0-72 mg/kg sc 60 min before sc injection of soman. In time-finding experiments memantine was injected 18 mg/kg sc 0-1440 min before soman. Standard treatment antidotes - atropine 10 mg/kg, HI-6 50 mg/kg and diazepam 2.5 mg/kg - were administered im within 15 s post-exposure. Soman 0.75 LD50 was used to study its inhibitions of neuromuscular transmission on the phrenic nerve-diaphragm preparation in situ and of tissue AChE activity. Behavioural effects of the prophylactic antidotes were investigated by means of the rotarod test. Based on these data therapeutic index and therapeutic width was calculated for all three prophylactic agents. RESULTS:Memantine pretreatment (18 mg/kg sc) produced in rats poisoned with soman significantly better protective ratios (PRs) than the two carbamates - 1.25 when administered alone and 2.3 when combined with atropine pretreatment and 6.33 and 7.23 with atropine/HI-6 and atropine/HI-6/diazepam post-exposure therapy, respectively. The highest PR of 10.11 obtained in Atr/HI-6-treated rats was achieved after pretreatment with memantine 36 mg/kg. This additional protection lasted for 8 h. All three prophylactic regimens antagonised the soman-induced neuromuscular blockade, but the effect of memantine was fastest. Pretreatment with memantine assured higher AChE activity in brain and diaphragm than in unpretreated rats (46% vs 28% and 68% vs. 38%, respectively). All three prophylactic regimens affected the rotarod performance in rats, but the effect of memantine was relatively strongest. Memantine and pyridostigmine had lowest and highest therapeutic index and therapeutic width, respectively. CONCLUSIONS:Although memantine assures better and longer-lasting protection against soman poisoning in rats than the two carbamates, its small therapeutic index and narrow therapeutic width seriously limit its potential as a pretreatment agent. Despite its behavioural effects, memantine seems to be beneficial antidote when administered after soman, along with atropine/HI-6/diazepam therapy. Mechanism of the antidotal effect of memantine against soman poisoning appears to be a combination of AChE-protecting and NMDA receptor-blocking action.
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Toxicologyjournal_title
Toxicologyauthors
Stojiljković MP,Škrbić R,Jokanović M,Bokonjić D,Kilibarda V,Vulović Mdoi
10.1016/j.tox.2019.01.012subject
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2019-03-15 00:00:00pages
62-74eissn
0300-483Xissn
1879-3185pii
S0300-483X(19)30061-7journal_volume
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