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EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHARMACEUTICAL SCIENCES
Volume 81, Issue -, Pages 94-102Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.ejps.2015.10.010
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Olanzapine; Chronic social isolation; Liver; Oxidative stress; Inflammation; Histopathology
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- Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development of the Republic of Serbia [173044]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [SFB636-TP3]
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Olanzapine, an atypical antipsychotic, is efficient in stress associated psychiatric diseases, but its effect on the liver, a primary organ for drug activation and detoxification, still remains unclear. The effect of olanzapine administration (7.5 mg/kg/day), on rat hepatic glutathione (GSH)-dependent defense and proinflammatory cytokines following 6 weeks of chronic social isolation (CSIS), which causes depressive-and anxiety-like behavior in adult male Wistar rats, was investigated. The subcellular distribution of nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B), cytosolic inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) protein levels and hepatic histological alterations were also determined. Decreased GSH content and glutathione reductase activity associated with increased catalase and glutathione S-transferase activity following CSIS indicated hepatic oxidative stress. Moreover, CSIS caused NF-kappa B nuclear translocation and the concomitant increase in iNOS together with increase in interleukin-1beta and tumor necrosis factor alpha protein levels, but no effect on interleukin-6. Olanzapine treatment suppressed NF-kappa B activation and iNOS expression and caused modulation of GSH-dependent defense systems but failed to reverse CSIS-induced increase in hepatic proinflammatory cytokines. Portal inflammation, focal hepatocyte necrosis and an increased number of Kupffer cells in CSIS rats (vehicle-or olanzapine-treated) were found. Olanzapine-treated socially reared rats showed portal inflammation and focal hepatocyte necrosis. Data suggest that CSIS compromised GSH-dependent defense, triggered a proinflammatory response and histological alterations in rat liver. Olanzapine treatment partially reversed the alterations in hepatic GSH-dependent defense, but showed no anti-inflammatory effect suggesting that it may provide protective effect against hepatic CSIS-induced oxidative stress, but not against inflammation. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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