Abstract：
:Antipsychotic drugs are traditionally classified as typical or atypical on the basis of their property to cause or not to cause extrapyramidal side-effects. A widely accepted selectivity for the mesolimbic, vs. the nigrostriatal, dopaminergic system is postulated to underlie the existence of fewer or no extrapyramidal side-effects during treatment with atypical neuroleptics. In order to verify this hypothesis we examined the effect of acute clozapine on nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons recorded from non-anaesthetised and from chloral hydrate-anaesthetised rats. Extracellular single-unit recording coupled with antidromic activation from the neostriatum was used. Intravenous administration of cumulative doses of clozapine (1.25-10 mg/kg) increased the firing rate of nigrostriatal dopaminergic neurons in non-anaesthetised rats, but failed to significantly modify the activity of the same units under chloral hydrate anesthesia. These results indicate that acute clozapine activates nigrostriatal dopamine cells in non-anaesthetised rats and cast doubts about a direct link between the lack of significant extrapyramidal side-effects and the selectivity of atypical neuroleptics, such as clozapine, for the mesolimbic dopamine system.
journal_name
Eur J Pharmacoljournal_title
European journal of pharmacologyauthors
Melis M,Gessa GL,Diana Mdoi
10.1016/s0014-2999(98)00822-xsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1998-12-18 00:00:00pages
135-8issue
2-3eissn
0014-2999issn
1879-0712pii
S0014-2999(98)00822-Xjournal_volume
363pub_type
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