When applied to rats (intraperitoneally) immediately after subcutaneous injection of soman (120 micrograms/kg) HI-6 (100 mg/kg) protected about 40% of the activity of acetylcholinesterase (AChE) in the motor end plate region of the diaphragm but did not protect AChE in the brain. However, a partial protection of AChE in brain against inhibition by soman was obtained in anaesthetized, atropinized rats by the oxime injected into the cerebral ventricle 5 min before parenteral exposure to soman. The AChE activity in brain of rats pretreated with HI-6, analyzed 60 min after the injection of soman was between 10 and 19%, while that in non-protected animals did not exceed 1% of the control. The degree of protection of AChE in brain was dose-dependent. Large doses of HI-6 (greater than or equal to 100 micrograms) were tolerated by animals because of the pentobarbital anaesthesia which counteracted the lethal action of HI-6. The rate of "aging" of AChE in brain inhibited by soman was analyzed by intracerebroventricular injection of 200 micrograms of HI-6 at different time intervals after the subcutaneous injection of soman. A statistically-significant reactivation of inhibited AChE activity in brain was demonstrated when HI-6 was applied up to 20 min after soman. The protection and reactivation by HI-6 of both AChE in brain and AChE in muscle end plates in poisoning with soman appear to be quite similar.

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