Cargando…
Chronic Antipsychotic Treatment in the Rat – Effects on Brain Interleukin-8 and Kynurenic Acid
Schizophrenia is associated with activation of the brain immune system as reflected by increased brain levels of kynurenic acid (KYNA) and proinflammatory cytokines. Although antipsychotic drugs have been used for decades in the treatment of the disease, potential effects of these drugs on brain imm...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Libertas Academica
2015
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578548/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26448689 http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/IJTR.S25915 |
_version_ | 1782391135213191168 |
---|---|
author | Larsson, Markus K Schwieler, Lilly Goiny, Michel Erhardt, Sophie Engberg, Göran |
author_facet | Larsson, Markus K Schwieler, Lilly Goiny, Michel Erhardt, Sophie Engberg, Göran |
author_sort | Larsson, Markus K |
collection | PubMed |
description | Schizophrenia is associated with activation of the brain immune system as reflected by increased brain levels of kynurenic acid (KYNA) and proinflammatory cytokines. Although antipsychotic drugs have been used for decades in the treatment of the disease, potential effects of these drugs on brain immune signaling are not fully known. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of chronic treatment with antipsychotic drugs on brain levels of cytokines and KYNA. Rats were treated daily by intraperitoneally administered haloperidol (1.5 mg/kg, n = 6), olanzapine (2 mg/kg, n = 6), and clozapine (20 mg/kg, n = 6) or saline (n = 6) for 30 days. Clozapine, but not haloperidol or olanzapine-treated rats displayed significantly lower cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of interleukin-8 compared to controls. Whole brain levels of KYNA were not changed in any group. Our data suggest that the superior therapeutic effect of clozapine may be a result of its presently shown immunosuppressive action. Further, our data do not support the possibility that elevated brain KYNA found in patients with schizophrenia is a result of antipsychotic treatment. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-4578548 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2015 |
publisher | Libertas Academica |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-45785482015-10-07 Chronic Antipsychotic Treatment in the Rat – Effects on Brain Interleukin-8 and Kynurenic Acid Larsson, Markus K Schwieler, Lilly Goiny, Michel Erhardt, Sophie Engberg, Göran Int J Tryptophan Res Original Research Schizophrenia is associated with activation of the brain immune system as reflected by increased brain levels of kynurenic acid (KYNA) and proinflammatory cytokines. Although antipsychotic drugs have been used for decades in the treatment of the disease, potential effects of these drugs on brain immune signaling are not fully known. The aim of the present study is to investigate the effects of chronic treatment with antipsychotic drugs on brain levels of cytokines and KYNA. Rats were treated daily by intraperitoneally administered haloperidol (1.5 mg/kg, n = 6), olanzapine (2 mg/kg, n = 6), and clozapine (20 mg/kg, n = 6) or saline (n = 6) for 30 days. Clozapine, but not haloperidol or olanzapine-treated rats displayed significantly lower cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) levels of interleukin-8 compared to controls. Whole brain levels of KYNA were not changed in any group. Our data suggest that the superior therapeutic effect of clozapine may be a result of its presently shown immunosuppressive action. Further, our data do not support the possibility that elevated brain KYNA found in patients with schizophrenia is a result of antipsychotic treatment. Libertas Academica 2015-09-20 /pmc/articles/PMC4578548/ /pubmed/26448689 http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/IJTR.S25915 Text en © 2016 the author(s), publisher and licensee Libertas Academica Ltd. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 License. |
spellingShingle | Original Research Larsson, Markus K Schwieler, Lilly Goiny, Michel Erhardt, Sophie Engberg, Göran Chronic Antipsychotic Treatment in the Rat – Effects on Brain Interleukin-8 and Kynurenic Acid |
title | Chronic Antipsychotic Treatment in the Rat – Effects on Brain Interleukin-8 and Kynurenic Acid |
title_full | Chronic Antipsychotic Treatment in the Rat – Effects on Brain Interleukin-8 and Kynurenic Acid |
title_fullStr | Chronic Antipsychotic Treatment in the Rat – Effects on Brain Interleukin-8 and Kynurenic Acid |
title_full_unstemmed | Chronic Antipsychotic Treatment in the Rat – Effects on Brain Interleukin-8 and Kynurenic Acid |
title_short | Chronic Antipsychotic Treatment in the Rat – Effects on Brain Interleukin-8 and Kynurenic Acid |
title_sort | chronic antipsychotic treatment in the rat – effects on brain interleukin-8 and kynurenic acid |
topic | Original Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4578548/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26448689 http://dx.doi.org/10.4137/IJTR.S25915 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT larssonmarkusk chronicantipsychotictreatmentintherateffectsonbraininterleukin8andkynurenicacid AT schwielerlilly chronicantipsychotictreatmentintherateffectsonbraininterleukin8andkynurenicacid AT goinymichel chronicantipsychotictreatmentintherateffectsonbraininterleukin8andkynurenicacid AT erhardtsophie chronicantipsychotictreatmentintherateffectsonbraininterleukin8andkynurenicacid AT engberggoran chronicantipsychotictreatmentintherateffectsonbraininterleukin8andkynurenicacid |