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Dopamine stabilising drugs as antipsychotics. Philip Strange University of Reading. A Treatment Option for Schizophrenia and Bipolar I Disorder . “Third generation antipsychotic” – “dopamine stabiliser”. Top 10 best selling drugs 2006. Global sales ($ billion)
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Dopamine stabilising drugs as antipsychotics Philip Strange University of Reading
A Treatment Option for Schizophrenia and Bipolar I Disorder “Third generation antipsychotic” – “dopamine stabiliser”
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Dopamine stabilising drugs • Schizophrenia • Antipsychotic drugs • First and second generation • “Dopamine stabilisers” • Intrinsic efficacy of drugs • Intrinsic efficacy and antipsychotic drug action
Schizophrenia • 1911 - Bleuler gave name to schizophrenia • “madness” • psychosis
Ophelia (Millais) … poor Ophelia, divided from herself and her fair judgement without the which we are pictures or mere beasts … Shakespeare, Hamlet (~1601)
Schizophrenia • Onset – adolescence/early adulthood • Lifetime risk 1% • Presentation of symptoms and outcome – varied
The scream Edvard Munch
Schizophrenia - symptoms • Positive symptoms – disordered thoughts, delusions, hallucinations • Negative symptoms – poverty of speech and thought, reduced movement, social withdrawal • Patients present with different combinations of symptoms
Schizophrenia - symptoms • Course and prognosis varied
Schizophrenia - aetiology • Environmental factors e.g. birth complications, viral infection, cannabis usage etc • Genetic factors • Identification of susceptibility genes e.g. neuregulin 1
Treatment of Schizophrenia • Antipsychotic (neuroleptic) drugs • First generation drugs (chlorpromazine, haloperidol) • Second generation drugs (risperidone, quetiapine, olanzapine, amisulpride) • Treat positive symptoms
Side effects of antipsychotics • Extrapyramidal (motor) – acute dystonia, akathesia, parkinsonism, tardive dyskinesia • Seen more with First Generation (typical) antipsychotics • Seen less with Second Generation (atypical) antipsychotics • Actions at other receptors - sedation, weight gain, sexual dysfunction
Mechanisms of antipsychotic action • Effects on dopamine systems • Correlation between daily dose of drug and affinity at D2 dopamine receptor (Snyder, Seeman, 1976)
Dopamine pathways in the brain nigrostriatal (movement) mesocorticolimbic (behaviour) tuberoinfundibular (prolactin)
Therapeutic and side effects of antipsychotic drugs • Therapeutic effects due to blockade of D2/D3 receptors in nucleus accumbens/olfactory tubercle • Extrapyramidal side effects due to blockade of D2/D3 receptors in caudate/putamen
Dopamine neurotransmission Regulation of release via presynaptic receptors - Neurotransmitter taken back in to nerve terminal dopamine D2/D3 dopamine receptors
Dopamine neurotransmission – effects of antipsychotic drug ~ 70% occupancy – reduce dopamine signalling Regulation of release via presynaptic receptors - dopamine D2/D3 receptors antagonists
Role of serotonin receptors • 5-HT2A antagonism – suppression of EPS • 5-HT1A agonism – effects on cognitive symptoms, suppression of EPS
Dopamine in the brain in schizophrenia • “Dopamine hypotheses” of schizophrenia • Increased dopamine function in limbic regions? • Dopamine release increased in psychosis (Laruelle) • Reduced dopamine function in cortex?
Problems with current antipsychotic drugs • Negative symptoms not treated • Side effect profile • Dopamine systems (prolactin) • Other systems (weight gain, metabolic, sexual dysfunction etc)
Dopamine stabilising drugs? • Stabilise dopamine dysregulation (Carlsson) • Suppress excessive dopamine function • Reverse dopamine hypofunction • Better therapeutic and side effect profile
Dopamine stabilising drugs? • Dopamine D2 partial agonists • Suppress excessive dopamine function without hypodopaminergia • Enhance reduced dopamine function? • e.g. (-)-3-PPP, UH-232, aripiprazole, bifeprunox
Dopamine neurotransmission – effects of partial agonist drug ~ 90% occupancy – inhibit dopamine - signal depends on agonism of drug Regulation of release via presynaptic receptors - dopamine D2/D3 receptors
Dopamine output and effects of drugs normal schizophrenia
Dopamine output and effects of drugs normal schizophrenia antagonist drug
Dopamine output and effects of drugs normal schizophrenia antagonist drug partial agonist drug
Dopamine stabilisers (partial agonists) (-)-3-PPP (preclamol) aripiprazole bifeprunox UH-232
Intrinsic efficacy of antipsychotics? • Antagonism/partial agonism? • Actions of drugs depend on more than just binding • Intrinsic efficacy of drugs
What is ligand efficacy? • Agonist: Ligand that binds to a receptor and produces a response • Partial agonist: Produces an effect less than the maximum • Antagonist: Ligand that binds but does not cause activation • Inverse Agonist: Binds and produces the opposite response to the agonist Receptor Activity log [Ligand] (M) Full Agonist Partial Agonist Antagonist Inverse Agonist
Intrinsic efficacy of drugs? R + D RD effect • binding • affinity • effect • intrinsic efficacy
Intrinsic efficacy scale + 0 - inverse agonist neutral antagonist agonist assesses potential for drug to have effect acute versus chronic effects?
agonist R E a bg GTP response e.g. cAMP G protein-coupled receptors
agonist R E a bg GTP response [35S]GTPgS binding [35S]GTPgS binding assay to assess drug intrinsic efficacy
Stimulation of [35S]GTPgS binding (D2 dopamine receptor) dopamine bromocriptine CHO-D2 cell membranes
Intrinsic efficacy scale + 0 - inverse agonist neutral antagonist agonist bromocriptine dopamine
Inverse agonism assayed by inhibition of [35S]GTPgS binding D2-CHO membranes 10-15% response
Inverse agonism assayed by inhibition of [35S]GTPgS binding P<0.05 for raclopride and sulpiride versus butaclamol
Intrinsic efficacy scale + 0 - inverse agonist neutral antagonist agonist bromocriptine haloperidol clozapine sulpiride dopamine
Dopamine stabilising drugs? • Aripiprazole, UH-232, (-)-3-PPP, bifeprunox
Effects of dopamine and aripiprazole on [35S]GTPgS binding + Na+ - Na+
Effects of dopamine and UH-232 on [35S]GTPgS binding + Na+ - Na+
Effects of dopamine and (-)-3-PPP on [35S]GTPgS binding + Na+ - Na+
Intrinsic efficacy scale + 0 - inverse agonist neutral antagonist agonist bromocriptine haloperidol clozapine sulpiride dopamine (-)-3-PPP aripiprazole/UH-232/bifeprunox
Intrinsic efficacy scale + 0 - inverse agonist neutral antagonist agonist bromocriptine haloperidol clozapine sulpiride dopamine (-)-3-PPP aripiprazole/UH-232/bifeprunox System dependence of expression of intrinsic efficacy