{"title":"Endocrinological function in schizophrenic patients under haloperidol treatment: plasma PRL, HGH and 5HT levels after L-5HTP loading.","authors":"Y Hoshino, M Kaneko, H Kumashiro, R Tachibana","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01941.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01941.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In order to examine 5HT metabolism in the hypothalamo-pituitary (HP) system of chronic schizophrenic patients taking haloperidol for a short or long period, chronological changes of blood 5HT, PRL and HGH were measured after an oral loading dose of L-5hydroxytryptophan (L-5HTP), a precursor of 5HT. The subjects consisted of 8 male patients with chronic schizophrenia, who were divided into the following two groups. The 1st group--4 patients taking haloperidol (5.6 mg/day) for 8 months on an average (short-term treatment). The 2nd group--4 patients taking haloperidol (4.8 mg/day) for 7.5 years on an average (long-term treatment). The control group was made up of 9 healthy male volunteers. As a result, the basal level of blood 5HT in the 1st group was significantly higher than that in the control group. The blood 5HT levels in the 1st and 2nd groups showed an equally remarkable increase as compared with the control group. The basal level of plasma PRL in the 2nd group was significantly lowe than that in the control group. Moreover, in the 2nd group, an increase in the plasma PRL level after the loading was suppressed, but it showed less suppression in the 1st group. There was no significant difference in the basal HGH levels among the control, 1st and 2nd groups. After the loading, an increase in the plasma HGH was suppressed in the 2nd group, but the suppression was less in the 1st group.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 1","pages":"25-31"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01941.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14992116","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Okamoto, M Sato, T Moriwake, K Morimoto, T Ogawa, K Morita, T Nakatsu, N Ogawa
{"title":"The prophylactic and anticonvulsant effects of a TRH analog (DN-1417) on amygdaloid kindling model of epilepsy.","authors":"M Okamoto, M Sato, T Moriwake, K Morimoto, T Ogawa, K Morita, T Nakatsu, N Ogawa","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02008.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02008.x","url":null,"abstract":"Thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH) is a neuropeptide that is widely distributed throughout the CNS in addition to the hypothalamus and has a variety of CNS actions unrelated to its endocrine action via the pituitary-thyroid axis. A TRH analog, y -butyrolactone-y -carbanyl-L-histidyl-L-prolinamide citrate (DN-1417), has been reported3 to have a more profound CNS action with a Iess TSH-releasing activity than TRHtartrate (TRH-T). Recently, a therapeutic effect of DN14 17 on myoclonus epilepsy and Lennox syndrome has been reported.2 Our previous study showed that an intravenous administration of TRH-T and DN1417 has a short-lived anticonvulsant effect on kindled amygdaloid (AM) seizures in cats, although the effect had considerable individual variations and no dose-related responses.s A short-lived effect without doserelated responses appears to depend upon the degradation or less penetration through BBB after a systemic administration. In this study, we examined the prophylactic and anticonvulsant effects of intracerebroventricularly (ICV) administered DN-1417 on the AM kindling model of rats. Male Sprague-Dawley (SD) rats were ~~","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 3","pages":"313-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02008.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15054489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Kaijima, G Le Gal La Salle, T Tanaka, Y Yonemasu
{"title":"GABAergic and dopaminergic systems of the substantia nigra and amygdaloid kindling in cats.","authors":"M Kaijima, G Le Gal La Salle, T Tanaka, Y Yonemasu","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02009.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02009.x","url":null,"abstract":"It has been reported that the nigral GABAergic system intervenes in inhibition of epileptic seizures in various experimental models of epilepsy.' Our previous study showed that a bilateral injection of ?-vinyl GABA (GVG), a GABA-elevating agent, in the substantia nigra (SN) of rats strongly reduced the afterdischarge duration without a significant modification of motor manifestations of seizures in the amygdaloid kindling.3 * The present study demonstrates the effects of GVG injected in the SN on the amygdaloid kindling in cats. In addition, we report the effects of selective lesions of nigral dopaminergic neurons on the amygdaloid kindling produced by the bilateral injection of 6-hydroxydopamine (6-OHDA) in the substantia nigra of cats.","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 3","pages":"317-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02009.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15054492","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"L-dopa-induced asterixis.","authors":"I Kobayashi, M Osawa, K Ohta, S Maruyama","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00804.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00804.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Three cases with the occurrence of asterixis during the administration of L-dopa were reported. Liver and metabolic functions were normal in all the patients. Upon the appearance of asterixis no other involuntary movements probably resulting from an excess administration of L-dopa were observed. Asterixis occurred accompanied by clinical symptoms such as hallucination and a mild clouding of consciousness by insomnia. Because of its reversal with drug withdrawal, asterixis seemed to be L-dopa-related. The biochemical basis of asterixis is not known but may involve the dopaminergic or serotonergic system.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 4","pages":"507-13"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00804.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14951334","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S Totsuka, T Hattori, M Yazaki, K Nagao, S Mizushima
{"title":"Clinicopathologic studies on neuro-Behçet's disease.","authors":"S Totsuka, T Hattori, M Yazaki, K Nagao, S Mizushima","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02899.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02899.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Nine cases of neuro-Behcet's disease were investigated clinicopathologically. Pathological pictures of the central nervous system were characterized as follows: the site of predilection was the brain stem, followed by the spinal cord, cerebrum and cerebellum. The pathognomonic changes were recurrent inflammations around small vessels, causing a softening of the tissue. Lesions were composed of a perivascular infiltration of lymphocytes, histiocytes and microglias and, moreover, diapedesis, degenerated nerve cells and oligodendroglias, glial nodule, breakdown of myelin and axon, fatty granule cells and glio-mesenchymal proliferation were present occasionally. Electron microscopic studies on the neurons revealed no evidence of viral particles except for some accumulations of electron dense bodies.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 2","pages":"155-66"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02899.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15177694","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Epstein-Barr virus antibodies in neurological diseases.","authors":"S Yabuki, Y Kazahaya, I Kubonishi","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01947.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01947.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Antibody titers to the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) were determined in 57 cases of acute or subacute neurological diseases. As a result, sera from 11 cases (7 Bell's palsy, 2 encephalitis and 2 acute cerebellar ataxia) were found to be positive for antibodies to early antigen. Seven of these 11 cases either seroconverted for IgG antibodies to viral capsid antigen (VCA) or were proven positive for anti-VCA-IgM antibodies in the serum. While 4 were found positive for IgG antibodies to VCA in CSF, 3 tested by the anti-complement immunofluorescence method were all negative for EBV-associated nuclear antigen (EBNA) in CSF. Three of the 11 cases were considered to be of a primary infection with EBV because of a negative serologic test for antibodies to EBNA initially; a reinfection with the virus or a reactivation of the latent infection was suspected in some of the remaining cases.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 1","pages":"85-93"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb01947.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14130129","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Electron microscopic morphometric studies on synaptic vesicles of long-term CPZ-administered rat striatum.","authors":"M Takeichi","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02902.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02902.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The effect of chronic administration of chlorpromazine (CPZ) on the striatal synaptic vesicles was quantitatively investigated with an electron microscope. Six rats, three controls and three experimentals, which received 20 mg/kg b.wt. of CPZ daily for 15 months, were sacrificed and a total of 300 axo-dendritic spine synapses (50 synapses per animal) were randomly taken and divided into three zones with a width of 160-467 nm on electron micrographs (final magnification 60,000). The first zone was adjacent to the presynaptic membrane in the region of the synaptic cleft. The second and third were farther away from the first zone. In these zones we measured the vesicle density, vesicle size and vesicle elongation ratio (the shortest diameter/the longest diameter) with the following results: In both the CPZ-administered rats and the controls the vesicle number per unit area of axoplasm (vesicle density) was smaller in Zone III than in Zones I and II, while those in the latter two zones did not differ from each other. However, there was no significant difference in the vesicle number in any zone between the control and experimental animals. The vesicles in every zone were significantly larger in the CPZ-administered animals than in the controls. There were no conclusive findings on the vesicle elongation ratio (vesicle shape).</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 2","pages":"185-91"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02902.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15177596","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T Ogawa, T Moriwake, K Morita, K Morimoto, M Okamoto, M Sato
{"title":"Suppression of amygdaloid kindled seizure and regional brain GABA content.","authors":"T Ogawa, T Moriwake, K Morita, K Morimoto, M Okamoto, M Sato","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02005.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02005.x","url":null,"abstract":"Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) has been known to be an inhibitory neurotransmitter in the mammalian brain. There are several reports indicating anticonvulsant effects of GABA-agonists on kindled seizures.2 5 t i Recently, Tuff et a1.O lo reported an increase in GABA-mediated inhibition of the dentate gyrus following kindling. To examine a possible role of hippocampal GABA on kindled convulsions, gabaculine, a GABA-transaminase inhibitor, was microinjected into the bilateral hippocampi of rats kindled from the amygdala in this study (Experiment 1 1. Moreover, the regional GABA content in the rat brains after an intra-hippocampal administration of gabaculine was measured (Experiment 2). In Experiment 1, 12 male Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing 280-320 g, were used. Bipolar electrodes were implanted stereotaxically into the left amygdala for EEG recording and electrical stimulation. Each rat had an electrical stimulation at the left amygdala with one second trains of 60 Hz sine wave, at an intensity of 300pA, once a day. Motor","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 3","pages":"301-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb02005.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14949475","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A study of EEG activities during sleep-wakefulness states in rabbits by autocorrelation and power spectrum analyses.","authors":"T Miyara","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00812.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00812.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A polysomnography was performed on nine rabbits with electrodes chronically implanted at the sensorimotor and visual corticies and hippocampus. The physiological sleep of the rabbits was divided into three stages: awake (W), slow wave sleep (SWS) and REM sleep (REM). For autocorrelation and power spectrum analyses, a transitional zone (T) from W to SWS was added to the fundamental three stages. No essential differences between the mean frequencies of the cortical and hippocampal EEGs were seen. The mean frequencies of hippocampal EEG were as follows: 6.4 in W, 5.4 and 2.4 in T, 2.2 in SWS and 7.3 Hz in REM. The mean peak frequency of hippocampal EEG during REM was significantly higher than that during W.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 4","pages":"571-80"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00812.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"14950122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M Yamamoto, S Takahashi, S Otsuki, T Kugoh, K Hosokawa, N Ogawa
{"title":"GABA levels in cerebrospinal fluid of patients with epilepsy.","authors":"M Yamamoto, S Takahashi, S Otsuki, T Kugoh, K Hosokawa, N Ogawa","doi":"10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00805.x","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00805.x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The lumbar cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) levels were measured in 27 patients with epilepsy, another three epileptic patients with status epilepticus and three epileptic patients with chronic cerebellar ataxia. The mean lumbar CSF GABA levels of the 27 patients with epilepsy were not significantly different from those of normal controls. Six of these 27 patients who had daily partial complex and partial motor seizures showed significantly low CSF GABA levels as did the six other patients, three each with status epilepticus and chronic cerebellar ataxia. These findings suggest that some epileptic patients have impaired brain GABAergic neurons.</p>","PeriodicalId":75857,"journal":{"name":"Folia psychiatrica et neurologica japonica","volume":"39 4","pages":"515-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1111/j.1440-1819.1985.tb00805.x","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"15053114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}