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ISRN Psychiatry. 2012 Jul 08;2012:947149. doi: 10.5402/2012/947149. Print 2012.

T-817MA, but Not Haloperidol and Risperidone, Restores Parvalbumin-Positive γ -Aminobutyric Acid Neurons in the Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus of Rats Transiently Exposed to MK-801 at the Neonatal Period.

ISRN psychiatry

Takashi Uehara, Tomiki Sumiyoshi, Tomonori Seo, Tadasu Matsuoka, Hiroko Itoh, Masayoshi Kurachi

Affiliations

  1. Department of Neuropsychiatry, Graduate School of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Toyama, 2630 Sugitani, Toyama 930-0194, Japan ; Division of Molecular and Clinical Neurobiology, Department of Psychiatry, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Nußbaumstraße 7, 80336 Munich, Germany.

PMID: 23738215 PMCID: PMC3658548 DOI: 10.5402/2012/947149

Abstract

The number of parvalbumin (PV)-positive γ -aminobutyric acid (GABA) neurons is decreased in the brain of rats transiently exposed to MK-801, an N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor blocker, in the neonatal stage (Uehara et al. (2012)). T-817MA [1-{3-[2-(1-benzothiophen-5-yl)ethoxy]propyl} azetidin-3-ol maleate] is a neuroprotective agent synthesized for the treatment of psychiatric disorders characterized by cognitive disturbances, such as dementia. We herein sought to determine whether T-817MA, haloperidol (HPD), or risperidone (RPD) would ameliorate the decrease in the number of PV-positive GABA neurons in the medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC) and hippocampus of the model animals. Rats were treated with MK-801 (0.2 mg/kg/day) or vehicle on postnatal days (PD) 7-10, and the number of PV-positive neurons in the mPFC and hippocampus were measured on PDs 63. T-817MA (20 mg/kg), HPD (1 mg/kg), or RPD (1 mg/kg) were administered during PDs 49-62. Fourteen-day administration of T-817MA reversed the decrease in the number of PV-positive neurons in the above brain regions of rats given MK-801, whereas HPD and RPD were ineffective. These results indicate that T-817MA provides a novel pharmacologic strategy to enhance cognitive function in patients with schizophrenia.

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