Antihypertensive drugs and brain function: mechanisms underlying therapeutically beneficial and harmful neuropsychiatric effects

C Carnovale, C Perrotta, S Baldelli… - Cardiovascular …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
A bidirectional relationship exists between hypertension and psychiatric disorders, including
unipolar and bipolar depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), psychosis …

Challenges, unmet needs and future directions–a critical evaluation of the clinical trial landscape in schizophrenia research

E Wagner, JJ Luykx, W Strube… - Expert Review of Clinical …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Develo** novel antipsychotic mechanisms of action and repurposing
established compounds for the treatment of schizophrenia is of utmost importance to …

Role of the NRG1/ErbB4 and PI3K/AKT/mTOR signaling pathways in the anti-psychotic effects of aripiprazole and sertindole in ketamine-induced schizophrenia-like …

DA Nawwar, HF Zaki, RH Sayed - Inflammopharmacology, 2022 - Springer
Schizophrenia is a common mental disorder affecting patients' thoughts, behavior, and
cognition. Recently, the NRG1/ErbB4 signaling pathway emerged as a candidate …

[HTML][HTML] Profiling of ERBB receptors and downstream pathways reveals selectivity and hidden properties of ERBB4 antagonists

L Popović, JP Wintgens, Y Wu, B Brankatschk… - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
ERBB receptor tyrosine kinases are involved in development and diseases like cancer,
cardiovascular, neurodevelopmental, and mental disorders. Although existing drugs target …

Neuregulin-1/PI3K signaling effects on oligodendrocyte proliferation, remyelination and behaviors deficit in a male mouse model of ischemic stroke

MY Cui, YQ Fu, ZL Li, Y Zheng, Y Yu, C Zhang… - Experimental …, 2023 - Elsevier
In this study, we investigated the effect of neuregulin-1 (NRG1) on demyelination and
neurological function in an ischemic stroke model, and further explored its neuroprotective …

Spironolactone alleviates schizophrenia-related reversal learning in Tcf4 transgenic mice subjected to social defeat

M Stephan, J Schoeller, FJ Raabe, A Schmitt, A Hasan… - Schizophrenia, 2022 - nature.com
Cognitive deficits are a hallmark of schizophrenia, for which no convincing pharmacological
treatment option is currently available. Here, we tested spironolactone as a repurposed …

Effects of early clozapine treatment on remission rates in acute schizophrenia (the EARLY trial): protocol of a randomized-controlled multicentric trial

E Wagner, W Strube, T Görlitz, A Aksar… - …, 2023 - thieme-connect.com
Background Quick symptomatic remission after the onset of psychotic symptoms is critical in
schizophrenia treatment, determining the subsequent disease course and recovery. In this …

The effect of fampridine on working memory: a randomized controlled trial based on a genome-guided repurposing approach

A Papassotiropoulos, V Freytag, N Schicktanz… - Molecular …, 2024 - nature.com
Working memory (WM), a key component of cognitive functions, is often impaired in
psychiatric disorders such as schizophrenia. Through a genome-guided drug repurposing …

Multiparametric assays for accelerating early drug discovery

A Herholt, S Galinski, PE Geyer, MJ Rossner… - Trends in …, 2020 - cell.com
Drug discovery campaigns are hampered by substantial attrition rates largely due to a lack
of efficacy and safety reasons associated with candidate drugs. This is true in particular for …

Effects of add-on Celecoxib treatment on patients with schizophrenia spectrum disorders and inflammatory cytokine profile trial (TargetFlame): study design and …

W Strube, A Aksar, I Bauer, S Barbosa… - Journal of Neural …, 2023 - Springer
Neuroinflammation has been proposed to impact symptomatology in patients with
schizophrenia spectrum disorders. While previous studies have shown equivocal effects of …