Effects of several neuroleptics, antidepressants and monoamine uptake blockers on ATPase activity and related oxygen uptake in rat brain in vitro.

An experimental trial was conducted to study the effects of phenoxybenzamine, cocaine, carbamazepine, loxapine, clozapine, clothiapine, thiothixene, droperidol, alprazolam, imipramine, maprotiline, dibenzepin, nomifensine, trazodone, mianserin, viloxazine, doxepin and amoxapine on photocolorimetrically rated ATPase activity and on related oxygen uptake, determined by manometrical means, within a concentration range of 0.1-0.001 mM. Phenoxybenzamine, clothiapine and maprotiline at 0.1 mM inhibited sodium-potassium ATPase activity and related QO2 by 30-40%. Loxapine, trazodone, amoxapine and alprazolam at 0.1 mM inhibited sodium-potassium ATPase activity by 25-35%. Imipramine, nomifensine and droperidol at 0.1 mM inhibited QO2 by 20-35%. Cocaine, at all concentrations assayed, inhibited ouabain insensitive ATPase. The remaining drugs did not produce significant modifications.