Inflamed moods: a review of the interactions between inflammation and mood disorders

JD Rosenblat, DS Cha, RB Mansur… - Progress in Neuro …, 2014 - Elsevier
Mood disorders have been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) as the
leading cause of disability worldwide. Notwithstanding the established efficacy of …

Novel therapeutic targets in depression: minocycline as a candidate treatment

JK Soczynska, RB Mansur, E Brietzke… - Behavioural brain …, 2012 - Elsevier
Mood disorders are marked by high rates of non-recovery, recurrence, and chronicity, which
are insufficiently addressed by current therapies. Several patho-etiological models have …

Implications of central immune signaling caused by drugs of abuse: mechanisms, mediators and new therapeutic approaches for prediction and treatment of drug …

JK Coller, MR Hutchinson - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2012 - Elsevier
In the past two decades a trickle of manuscripts examining the non-neuronal central nervous
system immune consequences of the drugs of abuse has now swollen to a significant body …

Cognitive dysfunction in depression–pathophysiology and novel targets

A F. Carvalho, K K. Miskowiak… - CNS & Neurological …, 2014 - benthamdirect.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is associated with cognitive dysfunction encompassing
several domains, including memory, executive function, processing speed and attention …

Minocycline: therapeutic potential in psychiatry

OM Dean, J Data-Franco, F Giorlando, M Berk - CNS drugs, 2012 - Springer
Pharmacological interventions to treat psychiatric illness have previously focused on
modifying dysfunctional neurotransmitter systems to improve symptoms. However, imperfect …

Indoleamine-2, 3-dioxygenase/kynurenine pathway as a potential pharmacological target to treat depression associated with diabetes

IC da Silva Dias, B Carabelli, DK Ishii, H de Morais… - Molecular …, 2016 - Springer
Diabetes is a chronic disease associated with depression whose pathophysiological
mechanisms that associate these conditions are not fully elucidated. However, the activation …

Minocycline attenuates bone cancer pain in rats by inhibiting NF-κB in spinal astrocytes

Z Song, B **ong, X Guan, F Cao, A Manyande… - Acta Pharmacologica …, 2016 - nature.com
Aim: To investigate the mechanisms underlying the anti-nociceptive effect of minocycline on
bone cancer pain (BCP) in rats. Methods: A rat model of BCP was established by inoculating …

Putative neuroprotective agents in neuropsychiatric disorders

S Dodd, M Maes, G Anderson, OM Dean… - Progress in Neuro …, 2013 - Elsevier
In many individuals with major neuropsychiatric disorders including depression, bipolar
disorder and schizophrenia, their disease characteristics are consistent with a …

Dopamine D2-receptor knockout mice are protected against dopaminergic neurotoxicity induced by methamphetamine or MDMA

N Granado, S Ares-Santos, I Oliva, ED Martin… - Neurobiology of …, 2011 - Elsevier
Methamphetamine (METH) and 3, 4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA),
amphetamine derivatives widely used as recreational drugs, induce similar neurotoxic …

Mephedrone, an abused psychoactive component of 'bath salts' and methamphetamine congener, does not cause neurotoxicity to dopamine nerve endings of the …

M Angoa‐Pérez, MJ Kane… - Journal of …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
J. Neurochem.(2012) 120, 1097–1107. Abstract Mephedrone (4‐methylmethcathinone) is a
β‐ketoamphetamine with close structural analogy to substituted amphetamines and …