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Transcription profiling of rat brain after treatment with narcoleptics used in the treatment of human schizophrenia

ABSTRACT: In pevious research we have shown that the disruption of the normal development of the ventral hippocampus in rodents leads to cellular abnormalities in the frontal cortex and behavioral deficits related to schizophenia (Neurotox Res. 2002, 4(5-6):469-475). We propose the use of gene expression analysis to investigate the molecular underpinnings of these processes which may shed light on the molecular processes relevant to human schizophrenia. In addition, we seek to characterize expression differences induced by chronic administration of antipsychotic medications, which may give insight into the molecular processes involved in ameliorating psychotic symptoms. Using both surgical and drug interventions, we aim to examine experimentally induced expression differences in the rodent brain that are relevant to human neuropsychiatric disorders. Disruption of the normal development of the vental hippocampus or chronic neuroleptic administration, will result in gene expression changes in the frontal cortex of rats. Elucidation of the molecular cascades underlying these treatments will shed light on both the pathoetiology (from the lesion experiments) and theurapeutic processes (from the antipsychotic treatment experiments) involved in human schizophrenia. We have developed 3 groups of samples:; 1] Ventral hippocampal lesion in neonatal rats (treatment and controls, total N=22); 2] Tetrodotoxin disruption of the ventral hippocampus (treatment and controls, total N=20); 3] Chronic administration of neuroleptics (multiple drugs, multiple doses, and controls, total N=63) Grand Total N=105

ORGANISM(S): Rattus norvegicus

SUBMITTER: Elizabeth Salomon

PROVIDER: E-GEOD-4031 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress

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Project description:Schizophrenia is a chronic mental illness that is among the world’s top twenty causes of years lost to disability according to the global burden of disease 2019 (10.1016/S0140-6736(20)30925-9). Positive symptoms, including hallucinations and delusions in schizophrenia, often improved with conventional antipsychotic medication, which exerts its therapeutic effects mainly by antagonizing the dopamine D2 receptors. Haloperidol was one of the first antipsychotics to be approved by the FDA, and it is since then widely used for the treatment of psychotic disorders including schizophrenia. Despite its high affinity for dopamine D2 receptors, it has been shown that haloperidol interacts with other receptors, such as dopamine D3 and D4 receptors, α-adrenergic receptor 1 and to some extent 5HT2A. Dopaminergic dysfunction is known for decades to be involved in the pathophysiology of schizophrenia, but only recently has the striatum been implicated in such devasting disorder. The dorsal striatum is a brain region involved in motor, cognitive and motivational functions, highly impacted by antipsychotic drugs. Particularly, it is well-recognized that chronic haloperidol administration has a tremendous impact on striatal synaptic plasticity, by changing the volume of dorsal striatum, the number of striatal neurons and the synaptic morphology, both in humans and rodents. Despite the overwhelming evidence correlating chronic haloperidol administration with striatum alterations, so far, the exact striatal synaptic mechanism by which haloperidol exerts its beneficial effects remains unclear. Although dopamine D2 receptor blockade can be achieved within hours after haloperidol administration, the onset of action is delayed by weeks. Thus, it is crucial to better understand the neuronal mechanism behind the delayed clinical effects of haloperidol to improve the treatment outcome. Using proteomic analysis and whole-cell patch-clamp recordings (Figure 1), we demonstrate for the first time a possible mechanism by which haloperidol may be contributing to its beneficial long-term therapeutic effect. Specifically, we demonstrate that modulation of D2-MSNs by chronic haloperidol administration leads to a slow remodeling of D1-neurons that may be responsible for its positive therapeutic effects.

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Transcription profiling of rat brain after treatment with narcoleptics used in the treatment of human schizophrenia

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