Abstract
Guanine-Based Purines as an Innovative Target to Treat Major Depressive Disorder.
Highlights
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most prevalent psychiatric disorder worldwide, and the leading disability causes a well-documented syndrome (Liu et al, 2020)
As a result until 2009, except for the nonmainstream agomelatine (Norman and Olver, 2019), all antidepressants in the clinic acted by modulating monoaminergic neurotransmission (Berton and Nestler, 2006)
Since ketamine modulates purinergic neurotransmission, the ketamine-induced nucleotide and NADPH augmentation might be, at least in part, responsible for the cell proliferation, morphogenesis, and protein synthesis observed after ketamine administration, all of which are relevant for its antidepressant effect
Summary
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most prevalent psychiatric disorder worldwide, and the leading disability causes a well-documented syndrome (Liu et al, 2020). A single ketamine administration increases mice plasma levels of PPP intermediates (D-ribose-5-phosphate and D-ribulose-5-phosphate), the substrates for purine de novo synthesis (McGowan et al, 2018).
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