Buckland, Paul Robert, O'Donovan, Michael Conlon ![]() |
Abstract
The effects of administration of antipsychotic drugs (1–32 days, twice per day) on the rat brain mRNA levels of dopamine D1, D2 and D3 receptors has been assessed by a novel procedure utilising solution hybridisation with oligonucleotides. Saline and sulpiride (10 mg/kg/injection) had no effect on D1, D2 and D3 receptor mRNA levels. Haloperidol (1.5 mg/kg/injection) elicited increases in D1, D2 and D3 receptor mRNA levels of 100%, 100% and 300%, respectively, after 32 days and loxapine (2 mg/kg/injection) elicited increases of 450%, 150% and 550%, respectively. These results indicate that the up-regulation of dopamine receptors may be associated with the occurrence of tardive dyskinesia but not the clinical mode of action of antipsychotics.
Item Type: | Article |
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Date Type: | Publication |
Status: | Published |
Schools: | MRC Centre for Neuropsychiatric Genetics and Genomics (CNGG) Medicine |
Subjects: | R Medicine > R Medicine (General) |
Publisher: | Springer |
ISSN: | 0033-3158 |
Last Modified: | 25 Oct 2022 09:11 |
URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/57619 |
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