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Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 1998 Aug;8(3):227-32.
Lack of beta adrenoceptor desensitization in brain following the dual noradrenaline and serotonin reuptake inhibitor venlafaxine.

Nalepa I, Manier DH, Gillespie DD, Rossby SP, Schmidt DE, Sulser F.

Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.

Venlafaxine, a dual amine reuptake inhibitor, was utilized to delineate the role of the individual aminergic components of the 'serotonin/noradrenaline link' in modifying receptor-linked second messenger cascades. Venlafaxine (20 mg/kg i.p. bid for 10 days) failed to alter in normal animals either the density of beta adrenoceptors or the response of the beta adrenoceptor-coupled adenylate cyclase system to noradrenaline but significantly decreased the cyclic AMP response to noradrenaline in the brain of rats with selective depletion of brain serotonin by p-chlorophenylalanine. The studies provide evidence for a cross-talk between noradrenergic and serotonergic receptor cascades at the level of mechanisms involved in the desensitization of the beta adrenoceptor-coupled adenylate cyclase system.

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Clin Neuropharmacol. 1998 Sep-Oct;21(5):296-306.
Brain monoamine output alterations after a single venlafaxine challenge in experimental hepatic encephalopathy.

Wikell C, Bergqvist PB, Hjorth S, Apelqvist G, Bjork H, Bengtsson F.

Department of Clinical Pharmacology, Lund University, Sweden.

Venlafaxine (VEN) pharmacokinetics and effects on the brain monoamine output were investigated in the context of experimental hepatic encephalopathy (HE). Systemic VEN (10 mg/kg; subcutaneous) was administered to chronic portacaval shunted (PCS) and sham-operated rats. Their neocortical extracellular levels of 5-HT, 5-HIAA, NA, and DA were then assessed using microdialysis. Serum, brain extracellular, and brain tissue levels of racemic VEN and its main metabolites were also investigated. In a dose-equipotent manner, the VEN challenge increased the 5-HT levels in PCS rats compared with VEN-treated controls, whereas the 5-HIAA levels decreased similarly with time after the challenge in PCS and controls. Brain extracellular NA levels increased similarly in PCS and controls after VEN, but DA increased predominantly in controls. A similar single dose challenge resulted in clearly higher VEN levels in serum, brain extracellular fluid, and brain tissue in the PCS rats compared with controls. However, the VEN brain tissue/serum ratios were in the same order of magnitude for the two groups. Of the main VEN metabolites, only O-desmethylvenlafaxine (ODV) could be detected in pharmacologically significant amounts. The ODV concentration was also elevated in all three investigated biomatrices of the PCS rats versus control rats. The authors concluded that a typical novel brain monoamine-acting drug, such as VEN, exhibits both pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic alterations in experimental HE. Accordingly, the results of this study suggest that this frequently used type of drug should be further studied for its potential combined kinetic/dynamic actions in compromised patients with liver impairment.

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Pol J Pharmacol. 1998 Mar-Apr;50(2):107-15.
Pharmacological profile of venlafaxine, a new antidepressant, given acutely.

Rogoz Z, Dziedzicka-Wasylewska M, Maj J.

Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland.

Pharmacological effects of acute treatment with venlafaxine (VEN), a clinically active antidepressant [a noradrenaline (NA) and 5-hydroxytryptamine (5-HT) reuptake inhibitor without any affinity for neurotransmitter receptors] were studied in mice and rats. VEN inhibited the reserpine- or apomorphine-induced hypothermia and enhanced the L-5-HTP-induced head twitches in mice. It reduced the immobility time in Porsolt's test in mice and rats, but either did not change the locomotor activity (mice) or decreased it (rats). VEN reduced the locomotor hyperactivity induced by amphetamine (AMP), apomorphine (APO) and quinpirole (QUI), as well as the APO-induced stereotypy; the stereotypy induced by AMP in rats was prolonged. VEN neither changed the clonidine-induced aggressiveness in mice nor the behavioral syndrome induced by oxotremorine in rats. The obtained results indicate that VEN, given acutely, shows a pharmacological profile similar to that of tricyclic NA and 5-HT reuptake inhibitors. In contrast to the antidepressants mentioned above, VEN does not exhibit an alpha 1-adrenolytic or a cholinolytic activity (in vivo tests).

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