Nitric oxide plasma/serum levels in patients with schizophrenia: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria

João Paulo Maia-de-oliveira²  Clarissa Trzesniak²  Irismar R. Oliveira¹  Matthew J. Kempton¹  Tatiana M. N. De Rezende²  Sandro Iego¹  Glen B. Baker¹  Serdar M. Dursun¹  João Paulo Machado-de-sousa²  Jaime E. C. Hallak² 

[1] ,Universidade de São Paulo Faculdade de Medicina Department of Neuroscience and BehaviorRibeirão Preto SP ,Brazil

关键词: Nitric Oxide;    Schizophrenia;    Psychosis;    Plasma levels;    Serum levels;    Meta-analysis;    Systematic review;    Óxido nítrico;    Esquizofrenia;    Psicose;    Níveis plasmáticos;    Níveis séricos;    Metanálise;    Revisão sistemática;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.rbp.2012.07.001

来源: SciELO

【 摘 要 】

For the last 40 years, schizophrenia has been considered to be the result primarily of a dysfunction in brain dopaminergic pathways. In this review, it is described and discussed findings concerning nitric oxide-mediated neurotransmission in schizophrenia. Studies were searched in PubMed, SciELO, and LILACS using the terms schizophrenia and nitric oxide plasma levels or nitric oxide serum levels, with no time limit. The reference lists of selected articles were also hand-searched for additional articles. From 15 potential reports, 10 were eligible to be included in the review and meta-analysis. These studies included a total of 505 patients with schizophrenia and 339 healthy volunteers. No significant difference was found between patients and healthy controls regarding total nitrite plasma/serum levels (effect size g = 0.285, 95%CI = -0.205 to 0.774, p = 0.254). However, when studies with patients under antipsychotic treatment were examined separately, there was a significant difference between patients and healthy volunteers (effect size g = 0.663, 95%CI = 0.365 to 0.961, p < 0.001), showing that patients under treatment have higher levels of plasma/serum nitric oxide than controls. These results suggest that antipsychotics increase nitric oxide plasma/serum levels and that the nitrergic pathway would be a fertile target for the development of new treatments for patients with schizophrenia.

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