The effect of antipsychotic drugs and their clinically inactive analogs on dopamine metabolism
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- DOI: 10.1016/0014-2999(77)90302-8
The effect of antipsychotic drugs and their clinically inactive analogs on dopamine metabolism
Abstract
Changes in dopamine metabolite levels in the rat striatum and tuberculum olfactorium, following the administration of three non-antipsychotic butyrophenones (AL-499, AHR-1900 and U-25,927) and a non-antipsychotic benzazepine (SCH-12,679), were compared to the effects seen following the antipsychotics haloperidol, chlorpromazine and clozapine. The non-antipsychotics, although clinically ineffective, were reported as active in a variety of animal screening tests. Haloperidol, chlorpromazine and clozapine produced a dose-dependent increase in 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid (DOPAC) levels in both regions. Of the non-antipsychotic drugs only AHR-1900 significantly elevated the level of DOPAC, however, the slope of its dose-response curve was atypically flat in comparison to the dose-response curves of drugs with known antipsychotic efficacy. Moreover, the maximal effect of AHR-1900 observed at a dose of 40 mg/kg was less than the ED50 effect of haloperidol which occurs at a 250 fold lower dose. It is concluded that the dose-dependent elevation of DOPAC in the striatum and tuberculum olfactorium of the rat is a good predictor of antipsychotic efficacy.
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