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Comparative study of sulpiride and haloperidol on dopamine turnover in the rat brain
Authors:Yoshihide Imazu  Kiyofumi Kobayashi  Toshikiyo Shohmori
Institution:(1) Department of Neuropsychiatry, Osaka Medical College, Takatsuki 569, Osaka, Japan;(2) Department of Clinical Neurochemistry, Institute for Neurobiology, Okayama University Medical School, Okayama 700, Japan
Abstract:The effects of the neuroleptics, sulpiride and haloperidol, on dopamine (DA) turnover were compared following the acute and chronic administration of these drugs alone or in combination with levodopa or apomorphine. In the acute treatment, the increase in DA metabolites in the striatum and nucleus accumbens was more marked in the haloperidol-treated rats than in the sulpiridetreated rats. Following the additional administration of levodopa, however, the potency of the neuroleptics in elevating DA metabolites was reversed. A low dose of apomorphine induced a marked reduction in the striatal DA metabolite levels by approximately 50%. When rats were pretreated with the neuroleptics, haloperidol was more effective in preventing an apomorphine-induced reduction in DA metabolites. On repeated administration of the neuroleptics, a tolerance occurred in the striatum and nucleus accumbens, but not in the prefrontal cortex. This differential development of tolerance was observed in the different brain regions and with the different drugs administered. These results suggests that the pharmacological mechanism of sulpiride on DA turnover differs from that of haloperidol.
Keywords:Sulpiride  haloperidol  dopamine turnover  presynaptic receptors  tolerance
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