Novel glutamatergic drugs for the treatment of mood disorders

KAB Lapidus, L Soleimani… - … disease and treatment, 2013 - Taylor & Francis
Mood disorders are common and debilitating, resulting in a significant public health burden.
Current treatments are only partly effective and patients who have failed to respond to trials …

Lamotrigine in the prevention of migraine with aura: a narrative review

D Buch, H Chabriat - Headache: The Journal of Head and Face …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Lamotrigine is not recommended in the prevention of migraine in general but
some reports suggest that it might be effective for treating specifically migraine with aura …

Protective effects of lamotrigine, aripiprazole and escitalopram on depression-induced oxidative stress in rat brain

İ Eren, M Nazıroğlu, A Demirdaş - Neurochemical research, 2007 - Springer
We investigated the effects of lamotrigine, aripiprazole and escitalopram administration and
experimental depression on lipid peroxidation (LP) and antioxidant levels in cortex of the …

Antidepressant-like effects of serotonin type-3 antagonist, ondansetron: an investigation in behaviour-based rodent models

R Ramamoorthy, M Radhakrishnan… - Behavioural …, 2008 - journals.lww.com
The present behavioural investigation evaluates the antidepressant potential of ondansetron
(OND), a widely used (in management of cancer chemotherapy-induced nausea and …

Acute and chronic effects of oral administration of a medium‐chain fatty acid, capric acid, on locomotor activity and anxiety‐like and depression‐related behaviors in …

H Shoji, H Kunugi, T Miyakawa - Neuropsychopharmacology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Capric acid (also known as decanoic acid or C10) is one of the fatty acids in the medium‐
chain triglycerides (MCTs) commonly found in dietary fats. Although dietary treatment with …

5-HT1A gene variants and psychiatric disorders: a review of current literature and selection of SNPs for future studies

A Drago, D De Ronchi, A Serretti - International Journal of …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
HT1A receptors are key components of the serotonin system, acting both pre-and post-
synaptically in different brain areas. There is a growing amount of evidence showing the …

Pharmacological evidence for the involvement of the NMDA receptor and nitric oxide pathway in the antidepressant-like effect of lamotrigine in the mouse forced …

S Ostadhadi, M Ahangari, V Nikoui… - Biomedicine & …, 2016 - Elsevier
Lamotrigine is an anticonvulsant agent that shows clinical antidepressant properties. The
aim of the present study was to investigate the involvement of N-methyl-d-aspartate (NMDA) …

[HTML][HTML] Phosphodiesterase-4D knock-down in the prefrontal cortex alleviates chronic unpredictable stress-induced depressive-like behaviors and memory deficits in …

ZZ Wang, WX Yang, Y Zhang, N Zhao, YZ Zhang… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Abstract Phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) has four isoforms (PDE4A-D) with at least 25 splice
variants. PDE4 subtype nonselective inhibitors produce potent antidepressant-like and …

Involvement of PI3K, GSK-3β and PPARγ in the antidepressant-like effect of folic acid in the forced swimming test in mice

J Budni, KR Lobato, RW Binfaré… - Journal of …, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Preclinical and clinical studies indicate that deficiency in folic acid plays a role in the
pathophysiology of depression. Considering that alterations in the signaling pathways that …

Antidepressant-like effect of lamotrigine in the mouse forced swimming test: evidence for the involvement of the noradrenergic system

MP Kaster, I Raupp, RW Binfaré, R Andreatini… - European journal of …, 2007 - Elsevier
Lamotrigine is an anticonvulsant drug that is also effective in the treatment of mood
disorders, especially bipolar disorder. However, few studies have been conducted in animal …