Effects of some new antidepressant drugs on the glucocorticoid receptor-mediated gene transcription in fibroblast cells.
Journal Title: Pharmacological Reports - Year 2005, Vol 57, Issue 6
Abstract
Antidepressant drugs are thought to counteract effects of hypercortisolemia, frequently associated with depression, by lowering cortisol level and by modifying the function of glucocorticoid receptors (GR). Indeed, classical antidepressants inhibit corticosteroid-induced gene transcription in cell cultures. The aim of the present study was to investigate effects of new generation antidepressant drugs on GR function in mouse fibroblast cells (L929), stably transfected with mouse mammary tumor virus-chloramphenicol acetyltransferase (MMTV-CAT) plasmid (LMCAT cells). It has been found that reboxetine (at 10 and 30 muM), venlafaxine, citalopram and mirtazapine (at 30 muM), but not milnacipran, in statistically significant manner inhibited corticosterone-induced gene transcription. However, the effects of new generation antidepressant drugs were weaker than those evoked by imipramine, which was active already at 3 muM concentration. Further studies on the mechanism of antidepressant action on GR function revealed that protein kinase C, but not mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPK), glycogen synthase kinase (GSK-3) and protein kinase B (PKB, Akt) play a role in this phenomenon.
Authors and Affiliations
Matylda Augustyn, Magdalena Otczyk, Bogusława Budziszewska, Grzegorz Jagła, Wojciech Nowak, Agnieszka Basta-Kaim, Lucylla Jaworska-Feil, Marta Kubera, Monika Leśkiewicz, Władysław Lasoń
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