期刊
PHARMACOLOGY & THERAPEUTICS
卷 116, 期 1, 页码 125-139出版社
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.pharmthera.2007.05.006
关键词
neurosteroids; allopregnanolone; stress; premenstrual dysphoric disorder; depressive disorders
资金
- NCRR NIH HHS [RR00046, M01 RR000046] Funding Source: Medline
- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH051246-04, R01 MH051246, MH051246] Funding Source: Medline
Animal models indicate that the neuroactive steroids 3 alpha,5 alpha-THP (allopregnanolone) and 3 alpha,5 alpha-THDOC (allotetrahydroDOC) are stress responsive, serving as homeostatic mechanisms in restoring normal GABAergic and hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) function following stress. While neurosteroid increases to stress are adaptive in the short term, animal models of chronic stress and depression find lower brain and plasma neurosteroid concentrations and alterations in neurosteroid responses to acute stressors. It has been suggested that disruption in this homeostatic mechanism may play a pathogenic role in some psychiatric disorders related to stress. In humans, neurosteroid depletion is consistently documented in patients with current depression and may reflect their greater chronic stress. Women with the depressive disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), have greater daily stress and a greater rate of traumatic stress. While results on baseline concentrations of neuroactive steroids in PMDD are mixed, PMDD women have diminished functional sensitivity of GABA(A) receptors and our laboratory has found blunted allopregnanolone responses to mental stress relative to non-PMDD controls. Similarly, euthymic women with histories of clinical depression, which may represent a large proportion of PMDD women, show more severe dysphoric mood symptoms and blunted allopregnanolone responses to stress versus never-depressed women. It is suggested that failure to mount an appropriate allopregnanolone response to stress may reflect the price of repeated biological adaptations to the increased life stress that is well documented in depressive disorders and altered allopregnanolone stress responsivity may also contribute to the dysregulation seen in HPA axis function in depression. (c) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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