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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
5
pubmed:dateCreated
2005-6-6
pubmed:abstractText
Antidepressant drugs have a clinical latency that correlates with the development of neuroadaptive changes, including down-regulation of beta-adrenergic receptors in different brain regions. The identification of drugs that shorten this latency will have a great impact on the treatment of major depressive disorders. We report that the time required for the antidepressant imipramine to reduce the expression of beta-adrenergic receptors in the hippocampus is reduced by a co-administration with centrally active ligands of type 2/3 metabotropic glutamate (mGlu2/3) receptors. Daily treatment of mice with imipramine alone (10 mg/kg, i.p.) reduced the expression of beta-adrenergic receptors in the hippocampus after 21 days, but not at shorter times, as assessed by western blot analysis of beta1-adrenergic receptors and by the amount of specifically bound [3H]CGP-12177, a selective beta-adrenergic receptor ligand. Down-regulation of beta-adrenergic receptors occurred at shorter times (i.e. after 14 days) when imipramine was combined with low doses (0.5 mg/kg, i.p.) of the selective mGlu2/3 receptor agonist LY379268, or with the preferential mGlu2/3 receptor antagonist LY341495 (1 mg/kg, i.p.). Higher doses of LY379268 (2 mg/kg, i.p.) were inactive. This intriguing finding suggests that neuroadaptation to imipramine--at least as assessed by changes in the expression of beta1-adrenergic receptors--is influenced by drugs that interact with mGlu2/3 receptors and stimulates further research aimed at establishing whether any of these drugs can shorten the clinical latency of classical antidepressants.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Amino Acids, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Imipramine, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/LY 341495, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/LY 379268, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Ligands, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Adrenergic, beta, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/Xanthenes, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/metabotropic glutamate receptor 2, http://linkedlifedata.com/resource/pubmed/chemical/metabotropic glutamate receptor 3
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jun
pubmed:issn
0022-3042
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
93
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1345-52
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-11-21
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Adaptation, Physiological, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Amino Acids, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Animals, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Antidepressive Agents, Tricyclic, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Bicyclo Compounds, Heterocyclic, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Down-Regulation, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Excitatory Amino Acid Antagonists, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Hippocampus, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Imipramine, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Ligands, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Male, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Mice, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Mice, Inbred Strains, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Nervous System Physiological Phenomena, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Receptors, Adrenergic, beta, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Receptors, Metabotropic Glutamate, pubmed-meshheading:15934953-Xanthenes
pubmed:year
2005
pubmed:articleTitle
Metabotropic glutamate receptors and neuroadaptation to antidepressants: imipramine-induced down-regulation of beta-adrenergic receptors in mice treated with metabotropic glutamate 2/3 receptor ligands.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Human Physiology and Pharmacology, University of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, Italy.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article