Abstract：
:Accumulating evidence indicates that dysfunction in amino acid neurotransmission contributes to the pathophysiology of depression. Consequently, the modulation of amino acid neurotransmission represents a new strategy for antidepressant development. While glutamate receptor ligands are known to have antidepressant effects, mechanisms regulating glutamate cycling and metabolism may be viable drug targets as well. In particular, excitatory amino acid transporters (EAATs) that are embedded in glial processes constitute the primary means of clearing extrasynaptic glutamate. Therefore, the decreased glial number observed in preclinical stress models, and in postmortem tissue from depressed patients provides intriguing, yet indirect evidence for a role of disrupted glutamate homeostasis in the pathophysiology of depression. More direct evidence for this hypothesis comes from studies using magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS), a technique that non-invasively measures in vivo concentrations of glutamate and other amino acids under different experimental conditions. Furthermore, when combined with the infusion of (13)C-labeled metabolic precursors, MRS can measure flux through discrete metabolic pathways. This approach has recently shown that glial amino acid metabolism is reduced by chronic stress, an effect that provides a link between environmental stress and the decreased EAAT activity observed under conditions of increased oxidative stress in the brain. Furthermore, administration of riluzole, a drug that enhances glutamate uptake through EAATs, reversed this stress-induced change in glial metabolism. Because riluzole has antidepressant effects in both animal models and human subjects, it may represent the prototype for a novel class of antidepressants with the modulation of glial physiology as a primary mechanism of action.
journal_name
Biochem Pharmacoljournal_title
Biochemical pharmacologyauthors
Valentine GW,Sanacora Gdoi
10.1016/j.bcp.2009.04.008subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2009-09-01 00:00:00pages
431-9issue
5eissn
0006-2952issn
1873-2968pii
S0006-2952(09)00296-2journal_volume
78pub_type
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更新日期：1983-12-15 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1986-10-15 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1991-06-15 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2014-08-15 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1995-09-28 00:00:00
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journal_title：Biochemical pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0006-2952(96)00422-4
更新日期：1996-09-27 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0006-2952(92)90724-w
更新日期：1992-04-15 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bcp.2010.10.006
更新日期：2011-01-15 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bcp.2008.12.008
更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.bcp.2003.12.020
更新日期：2004-04-15 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1986-12-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Biochemical pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Biochemical pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1987-05-15 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2004-12-01 00:00:00
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pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2001-08-15 00:00:00
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journal_title：Biochemical pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1993-06-09 00:00:00
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journal_title：Biochemical pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1990-01-15 00:00:00
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journal_title：Biochemical pharmacology
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0006-2952(86)90386-2
更新日期：1986-09-15 00:00:00
