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- Title
In Vitro and In Vivo Models for the Investigation of Potential Drugs Against Schizophrenia.
- Authors
Kaczor, Agnieszka A.; Kȩdzierska, Ewa; Koszła, Oliwia; Targowska-Duda, Katarzyna M.
- Abstract
Schizophrenia (SZ) is a complex psychiatric disorder characterized by positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms, and is not satisfactorily treated by current antipsychotics. Progress in understanding the basic pathomechanism of the disease has been hampered by the lack of appropriate models. In order to develop modern drugs against SZ, effcient methods to study them in in vitro and in vivo models of this disease are required. In this review a short presentation of current hypotheses and concepts of SZ is followed by a description of current progress in the field of SZ experimental models. A critical discussion of advantages and limitations of in vitro models and pharmacological, genetic, and neurodevelopmental in vivo models for positive, negative, and cognitive symptoms of the disease is provided. In particular, this review concerns the important issue of how cellular and animal systems can help to meet the challenges of modeling the disease, which fully manifests only in humans, as experimental studies of SZ in humans are limited. Next, it is emphasized that novel clinical candidates should be evaluated in animal models for treatment-resistant SZ. In conclusion, the plurality of available in vitro and in vivo models is a consequence of the complex nature of SZ, and there are extensive possibilities for their integration. Future development of more effcient antipsychotics reflecting the pleiotropy of symptoms in SZ requires the incorporation of various models into one uniting model of the multifactorial disorder and use of this model for the evaluation of new drugs.
- Subjects
SCHIZOPHRENIA; SYMPTOMS; MENTAL illness; INVESTIGATIONS; DRUGS; AMISULPRIDE; ARIPIPRAZOLE
- Publication
Biomolecules (2218-273X), 2020, Vol 10, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2218-273X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/biom10010160