Sodium nitroprusside, a nitric oxide donor for novel treatment of schizophrenia, may also modulate dopaminergic systems

“Schizophrenia is arguably the worst disease affecting mankind, even AIDS not excepted”. Since this statement in 1988 (Editors, 1988), schizophrenia still remains a major challenge to medicine, with up to 60% of patients not responding adequately to treatment despite the relatively large arsenal of...

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Autores: Soares, Bruno Lobão, Maia-de-Oliveira, Joao Paulo, Baker, Glen B., Hallak, Jaime E.C., Dursun, Serdar M.
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2014
País:Brasil
Institución:Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)
Repositorio:Repositório Institucional da UFRN
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.ufrn.br:123456789/25459
Acceso en línea:https://repositorio.ufrn.br/jspui/handle/123456789/25459
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2014.08.020
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Sodium nitroprusside
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Sumario:“Schizophrenia is arguably the worst disease affecting mankind, even AIDS not excepted”. Since this statement in 1988 (Editors, 1988), schizophrenia still remains a major challenge to medicine, with up to 60% of patients not responding adequately to treatment despite the relatively large arsenal of antipsychotics currently available. By modulating the nitric oxide (NO) pathway, a new paradigm for schizophrenia treatment apparently involving modulation of nitric oxide (NO) has been proposed (Oliveira et al., 2011).