Addition of Lithium to Chronic Antidepressant Treatment Potentiates Presynaptic Serotonergic Function without Changes in Serotonergic Receptors in the Rat Cerebral Cortex
作者:
Yasumasa Okamoto,
Nobutaka Motohashi,
Hiroshi Hayakawa,
Mitsutaro Muraoka,
Shigeto Yamawaki,
期刊:
Neuropsychobiology
(Karger Available online 1996)
卷期:
Volume 33,
issue 1
页码: 17-20
ISSN:0302-282X
年代: 1996
DOI:10.1159/000119243
出版商: S. Karger AG
关键词: Lithium;Potentiation of antidepressant Treatment;Clomipramine;Citalopram;Serotonin;Serotonergic receptors
数据来源: Karger
摘要:
The effects of the addition of short-term lithium to long-term administration of antidepressants (clomipramine or citalopram) on the levels of 5-HT and 5-HIAA and serotonergic receptors were studied in the rat cortex. The addition of short-term Li to long-term antidepressant treatment potentiated an increase in 5-HIAA, although Li alone had no effect. On the serotonergic receptors, the addition of short-term Li had no effect. It is speculated that the therapeutic action of Li when added to antidepressants in the treatment of refractory depression may partly have its basis in the further activation of the presynaptic serotonergic system.
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