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SCHIZOPHRENIA RESEARCH
卷 235, 期 -, 页码 17-28出版社
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DOI: 10.1016/j.schres.2021.07.014
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Atypical antipsychotics; Spiny projection neurons; Stereology; MAP kinases; Nrf2; Smad
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- Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness (MINECO-EU-FEDER) [SAF2016-75500-R]
- PRODEP [CA-BUAP-120]
- CONACYT [252808]
Increased dopaminergic activity in the striatum is associated with psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia. Risperidone treatment in adult rats with neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion improved neuronal atrophy and dendritic spine morphology impairments in the ventral striatum, while also normalizing pro-inflammatory pathways and inducing antioxidant activity. This suggests that Risperidone has neurotrophic, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant effects in addition to its canonical antipsychotic mechanism.
Increased dopaminergic activity in the striatum underlies the neurobiology of psychotic symptoms in schizophrenia (SZ). Beyond the impaired connectivity among the limbic system, the excess of dopamine could lead to inflammation and oxidative/nitrosative stress. It has been suggested that atypical antipsychotic drugs attenuate psychosis not only due to their modulatory activity on the dopaminergic/serotonergic neurotransmission but also due to their anti-inflammatory/antioxidant effects. In such a manner, we assessed the effects of the atypical antipsychotic risperidone (RISP) on the structural neuroplasticity and biochemistry of the striatum in adult rats with neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion (NVHL), which is a developmental SZ-related model. RISP administration (0.25 mg/kg, i.p.) ameliorated the neuronal atrophy and the impairments in the morphology of the dendritic spines in the spiny projection neurons (SPNs) of the ventral striatum (nucleus accumbens: NAcc) in the NVHL rats. Also, RISP treatment normalized the pro-inflammatory pathways and induced the antioxidant activity of the nuclear factor (erythroid-derived 2)-like 2 (Nrf2) in this model. Our results point to the neurotrophic, antiinflammatory, and antioxidant effects of RISP, together with its canonical antipsychotic mechanism, to enhance striatum function in animals with NVHL.
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