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Abstract
The anticonvulsant mood stabilizers valproic acid (250, 500 but not 50 mg/kg) and carbamazepine (6, 12.5 but not 3 mg/kg) were found to increase extracellular dopamine levels in rat medial prefrontal cortex, but not nucleus accumbens. Increased prefrontal dopamine was completely abolished by the selective 5-HT1A receptor antagonist N-[2-[4-(2-methoxyphenyl)-1-piperazinyl]ethyl]-N-2-pyridinylcyclohexa necarboxamide (WAY100635, 0.05 mg/kg). Anticonvulsants and clozapine may share a common mood stabilizing mechanism since clozapine is reported to have mood stabilizing effects and increase prefrontal dopamine by 5-HT1A receptor activation.Entities:
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Year: 1999 PMID: 10513560 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(99)00517-8
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Eur J Pharmacol ISSN: 0014-2999 Impact factor: 4.432