Involvement of muscarinic receptor mechanisms in antidepressant drug action

JM Witkin, JL Smith, LK Golani, EA Brooks… - Advances in …, 2020 - Elsevier
Conventional antidepressants typically require weeks of daily dosing to achieve full
antidepressant response in antidepressant responders. A newly evolving group of …

New insight into the mechanisms of fast-acting antidepressants: what we learn from scopolamine

C Anacker - Biological psychiatry, 2018 - biologicalpsychiatryjournal.com
For a depressed patient, a single day without symptom improvement means yet another day
of suffering. The currently available antidepressants require weeks or months to achieve …

Quantitative proteomic analysis of cortex in the depressive-like behavior of rats induced by the simulated complex space environment

R Min, Z Chen, Y Wang, Z Deng, Y Zhang, Y Deng - Journal of Proteomics, 2021 - Elsevier
Long-term spaceflight has always been challenging for astronauts due to the extremely
complicated space environmental conditions, including microgravity, noise, confinement …

HCN channels: new targets for the design of an antidepressant with rapid effects

P Luo, GF He, D Liu - Journal of Affective Disorders, 2019 - Elsevier
Background: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a prevalent neuropsychiatric disease that
carries a staggering global burden. Although numerous antidepressants are available on …

Decreased efficacy of the ketamine and scopolamine-induced sustained antidepressant-like effects in rats receiving metformin

HW Chuang, IH Wei, CT Li, CC Huang - Pharmacological Reports, 2022 - Springer
Background Metformin is the most widely used drug for treating type 2 diabetes mellitus
(DM), which frequently co-occurs with depressive disorders. Thus, patients with depression …

Underlying mechanisms of recombinant adeno-associated virus-mediated bicaudal C homolog 1 overexpression in the medial prefrontal cortex of mice with induced …

Z Wang, D Zhou, S Li, Y Zhang, C Wang - Brain Research Bulletin, 2019 - Elsevier
Bicaudal C homolog 1 gene (BICC1) in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) has been
implicated in major depressive disorder (MDD); however, less is known about the …

M2-AChR mediates rapid antidepressant effects of scopolamine through activating the mTORC1-BDNF signaling pathway in the medial prefrontal cortex

S Liu, D Shi, Z Sun, Y He, J Yang, G Wang - Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Background: Scopolamine, a non-selective muscarinic acetylcholine receptor (M1~ 5-AChR)
antagonist, has rapid and robust antidepressant effects in humans and other species …

Antidepressants: Pharmacology and Biochemistry

V Efinger, WE Müller, K Friedland - NeuroPsychopharmacotherapy, 2022 - Springer
The first antidepressants, discovered in the 1950s, and any successors directly target the
monoaminergic brain systems. Problems in this group, however, are low effectiveness (only …

О регламентации тропановых алкалоидов в зерновых продуктах

ОВ Багрянцева, СА Хотимченко, ИЕ Соколов… - Вопросы …, 2020 - cyberleninka.ru
Тропановые алкалоиды (ТА) являются метаболитами различных видов растений
семейств Brassicaceae, Solanaceae и Erythroxylaceae. Семена этих сорных растений …

Antidepressant effects of the muscarinic receptor antagonist scopolamine: clinical and preclinical review

ML Furey, WC Drevets, A Bhattacharya - New Rapid-acting …, 2021 - Springer
The nonselective muscarinic antagonist scopolamine is a rapid-acting antidepressant in
limited clinical studies and shares common downstream signaling partners to ketamine …