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EUROPEAN NEUROPSYCHOPHARMACOLOGY
Volume 13, Issue 4, Pages 220-227Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/S0924-977X(03)00070-1
Keywords
bipolar disorder; lithium; valproate; GABA; glutamate
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The present study was designed to determine if the mood stabilizers, lithium and valproate, have common effects on concentrations of amino acid neurotransmitters which may be related to their mechanisms of action. Two separate groups of rats were administered therapeutic doses of lithium, sodium valproate, or saline for 2 weeks. Whole brain extracts were then examined using either high-field H-1 NMR spectroscopy or HPLC. Both drugs decreased whole brain concentrations of aspartate, glutamate, and taurine while brain concentrations of gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) and alanine decreased following chronic sodium valproate administration but not following chronic lithium administration. These findings indicate that lithium and sodium valproate share common effects on the concentrations of certain amino acid neurotransmitters in whole brain which may be related to their mechanisms of action in bipolar disorder. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V./ECNP. All rights reserved.
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