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. 2019 Jul 31;12:185. doi: 10.3389/fnmol.2019.00185

Table 1.

Comparison of animal models of phencyclidine.

Corresponding to SCZ Dose/Regimen Sex/Strain Behavioral deficits Structural and neurochemical changes References
Positive Acute (2.5–15 mg/kg) Male Sprague-Dawley Rats Hyperlocomotor activity, increased stereotypy and ataxia Not tested Sturgeon et al., 1979
Acute (0.9–29 μmol/kg) or (0.5–10 mg/kg) Male Wistar Rats Decreased locomotor activity, increased stereotypy and ataxia Not tested Sams-Dodd, 1995, 1996
Subchronic (0.25–8 mg/kg for 5 days) or (0.9–29 μmol/kg for 3 days) Male Wistar Rats Hyperlocomotor activity, increased stereotypy and ataxia Stereotyped behavior reversed by chronic clozapine administration Sams-Dodd, 1995, 1996
Subchronic (5 mg/kg bi-daily for 7 days) Male Sprague-Dawley Rats Hyperlocomotor activity, increased sensitivity to amphetamine Reduced prefrontal cortical DA utilization, prolonged hypoactivity of mesocortical DA neurons and hyper-responsivity of mesolimbic DA neurons Jentsch et al., 1998
Subchronic (5 mg/kg for 3–14 days) Male Sprague-Dawley Rats Hyperlocomotor activity Dose-dependent enhancement in amphetamine-induced DA release in the PFC Balla et al., 2003
Negative Acute (0.45–57 μmol/kg) Male Wistar Rats Decreased social behavior Not tested Sams-Dodd, 1995, 1996
Subchronic (0.25–8.0 mg/kg for 5 days) or (0.9–29 μmol/kg for 3 days) Male Wistar Rats Concomitant reductions in the explorative and social behaviors Social isolation reversed by chronic clozapine administration Sams-Dodd, 1995, 1996
Subchronic (10 mg/kg for 14 days) Male ddY mice Increased time immobile in the FST FST effect was reversed by atypical APDs, risperidone and clozapine Noda et al., 1995
Subchronic (2 mg/kg bi-daily for 7 days) Male hooded-Listar Rats Disturbances in social interaction Reduced PV+ neurons in the hippocampus with significant reductions localized to the CA1 and DG regions of the hippocampus Jenkins et al., 2008
Subchronic (5 mg/kg bi-daily for 7 days) Male C57/BL6 WT mice Partial deficits in social behavior Not tested Brigman et al., 2009
Cognition Acute (0.25, 0.75, 1.5, 10 mg/kg) Male and female Sprague Dawley Rats Decreased sensorimotor gating PCP increases brain metabolism in areas of cortex, basal ganglia, and thalamus; enhances norepinephrine release and inhibits striatal synaptosomal DA Martinez et al., 1999
Acute (0.5 mg/kg, 1 mg/kg) Male ddY mice Impaired latent learning in a one-trial water-finding task Sigma1 receptor ligands attenuated the PCP-induced latent learning impairment Noda et al., 2001
Acute (1.0, 1.5 mg/kg) Female Hooded Listar Rats (socially isolated from P21) Impaired reversal task performance, increased locomotor activity from isolated rats compared to socially reared rats Atypical APD (ziprasidone) reversed impairments caused by PCP Abdul-Monim et al., 2003
Acute (2.58 mg/kg) Male hooded Long-Evans Rats Deficits in attentional set-shifting Altered zif268 mRNA expression in the infralimbic cortex and PV mRNA expression in the dorsal reticular nucleus of the thalamus Egerton et al., 2005
Acute (10 mg/kg on P7) Male Sprague Dawley Rats Not tested Loss of PV containing neurons from primary somatosensory, motor, and retrosplenial cortices Wang et al., 2008
Subchronic (10 mg/kg for 10 days, 5 mg/kg bi-daily for 7 days) Male Sprague-Dawley Rats Impaired spatial delayed alternation task Decreased basal DA utilization in the PFC Jentsch et al., 1997b
Subchronic (2 mg/kg bi-daily for 7 days) Female hooded-Listar Rats Enduring, persistent deficits in reversal learning Cognitive deficits are attenuated by treating with atypical but not classical APDs Abdul-Monim et al., 2006
Subchronic (2 mg/kg bi-daily for 7 days) Female hooded-Listar Rats Deficits in reversal learning Reduced PV+ neurons in the hippocampus, frontal cortex with reduced in the motor area 1 (M1) and increases in motor area 2 (M2) region and cingulate cortex Abdul-Monim et al., 2007
Subchronic (2 mg/kg bi-daily for 7 days) Female hooded-Listar Rats Deficits in novel object recognition test Clozapine and risperidone attenuated PCP-induced impairments Grayson et al., 2007
Subchronic (2.6 mg/kg for 5 days) Male hooded Long-Evans Rats Deficits in attentional set-shifting and sensorimotor gating Transient metabolic alterations present across multiple brain regions Egerton et al., 2008
Subchronic (2 mg/kg bi-daily for 7 days) Male hooded-Listar Rats Deficits in novel object recognition test Reduction in PV+ neurons in the PFC with specific deficits observed in the prelimbic region McKibben et al., 2010
Chronic intermittent exposure (5 mg/kg bi-daily for 5 days, 3 days after 10 days) Male Sprague-Dawley Rats No long-term impairment in T-maze alternation performance Not tested Stefani and Moghaddam, 2002
Chronic intermittent exposure(0.86 or 2.58 mg/kg for 5 days and post-8–26 days) Male hooded Long-Evans Rats Not tested Metabolic hypofunction in PFC increase glutamate release; initial increase in glucose utilization or uptake, activating non-NMDARs Cochran et al., 2003
Chronic intermittent exposure(2.6 mg/kg for 5 days and post-8–26 days) Male hooded Long-Evans Rats Deficits in attentional set-shifting Transient metabolic alterations present across multiple brain regions Egerton et al., 2008