Is the forced swimming test a suitable model for revealing antidepressant activity?

By F. Borsini, A. Meli. Psychopharmacology, 2004

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Mood and anxiety related phenotypes in mice : characterization using behavioral tests (2009, background): “Pharmacol Biochem Behav 2004;78(4):675–81.”
Forced swimming test in mice: a review of antidepressant activity (2004, background): “Some authors made a series of observations at 30 s. intervals and the mouse was rated as immobile (score 0) or not (score 1) for each observation period (Borsini and Meli 1988).”
Rodent Models of Depression: Forced Swim and Tail Suspension Behavioral Despair Tests in Rats and Mice (2007, background): “During the past 20 years, the behavioral despair test, in both the rat and the mouse, has become one of the most widely used antidepressant screens in industrial pharmacology (Borsini and Meli, 1988; Castagné et al., 2006).”
Assessing antidepressant activity in rodents: recent developments and future needs. (2002, background): “The widespread use of this model is largely a result of its ease of use, reliability across laboratories and ability to detect a broad spectrum of antidepressant agents [ 8 ].”