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  • 1
    Electronic Resource
    Electronic Resource
    Springer
    Der Nervenarzt 71 (2000), S. 54-57 
    ISSN: 1433-0407
    Keywords: Schlüsselwörter Synaptische Dopaminkonzentration ; phasische Dopaminfreisetzung ; SPECT ; IBZM ; AMPT ; Key words Synaptic dopamine concentration ; phasic dopamine release ; SPECT ; IBZM ; AMPT
    Source: Springer Online Journal Archives 1860-2000
    Topics: Medicine
    Description / Table of Contents: Summary The dopamine hypothesis of schizophrenia was based on the neuroleptical blockade of central dopamine D2 receptors. Brain imaging studies, however, generally failed to demonstrate a significant increase in central D2 receptors among schizophrenic patients. Using a novel approach, the group of Laruelle and Abi-Dargham was now able to demonstrate that schizophrenic patients have increased synaptic dopamine concentrations in the striatum. Endogenous dopamine competes with a radioligand for binding at dopamine D2 receptors; compared to healthy control subjects, blockade of dopamine production in neuroleptic-naive schizophrenic patients induced a significantly higher increase in D2 binding of the infused radioligand, indicating higher endogenous synaptic dopamine. A similar increase in D2 binding was also observed in drug-free schizophrenics who had previously been treated with neuroleptics; these patients also showed an increased density of striatal D2 receptors, most likely due to counteradaptive upregulation of D2 receptors during neuroleptic medication. The Columbia study provides an important indication of hyperdopaminergic function in schizophrenia.
    Notes: Zusammenfassung Die Dopaminhypothese der Schizophrenien gründet sich auf die Beobachtung der neuroleptikabedingten Blockade zentraler Dopamin-D2-Rezeptoren. Bildgebende Studien zeigten jedoch keine Erhöhung der zentralen Dopaminrezeptoren. Mit einer neuartigen Verfahrensweise konnte jetzt die Arbeitsgruppe von Laruelle und Abi-Dargham an der Columbia Universität zeigen, dass bisher unmedizierte schizophrene Patienten eine erhöhte Dopaminkonzentration in den striären Synapsen aufweisen. Das endogene Dopamin konkurriert mit dem Radioliganden um die Bindung am D2-Rezeptor; die Blockade der Dopaminproduktion führte bei bisher unbehandelten schizophrenen Patienten zu einem stärkeren Anstieg der Bindung des infundierten Radioliganden an zentrale D2-Rezeptoren als dies bei den gesunden Kontrollpersonen der Fall war, was auf erhöhte synaptische Dopaminkonzentrationen bei diesen Patienten hinweist. Auch bei medikationsfreien, aber bereits früher mit Neuroleptika behandelten Patienten stieg die D2-Bindung stärker an als bei Kontrollpersonen, zudem war bei diesen Patienten die Dichte der striären D2-Rezeptoren erhöht, wahrscheinlich als Ausdruck einer Gegenregulation im Rahmen der früheren neuroleptischen Therapie. Die Studie ist ein entscheidender Hinweis auf das Vorliegen einer erhöhten dopaminergen Neurotransmission bei schizophrenen Patienten.
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  • 2
    ISSN: 1434-193X
    Keywords: Tetrakis(dimethylamino)naphthalenes ; Basicity ; Hydrogen bonds ; Cyclicvoltammetry ; Chemistry ; General Chemistry
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Chemistry and Pharmacology
    Notes: ---For comparison to the recently described 2,3,6,7-tetrakis(dimethylamino)naphthalene (1) the three isomers 2,3, and 4 were synthesized. The basicities of this group of isomers are strongly dependent upon the different mutual orientations of the pairs of dimethylamino substituents: only the isomers 3 and, partially, 4, both with dimethylamino groups in adjacent peri-positions of the naphthalene, are strong “proton sponges”. For the isomers 1 and 2 with the same number and kind of twofold dimethylamino substituents in neighbouring ortho-positions, however, no significant basicity increase is observed. To explain this difference between the two groups of isomers it is suggested that in the ortho-pairs of 1 and 2 the C-N bonds diverge considerably, leading to an increased N···N distance and consequently to less stable [N···H···N]+ hydrogen bonds in contrast to the parallel C-N bonds in the peri-substituted isomers 3 and 4. X-ray crystal structure analyses of the bases and of some of the salts derived therefrom were solved and are discussed. Cyclic voltammetry indicates that 1 to 4 are strong electron donors, reacting easily to radical cations or dications which with suitable acids have been obtained as salts.
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