Relation of plasma prolactin to clinical response in schizophrenic patients.
Relation of plasma prolactin to clinical response in schizophrenic patients.
复制标题
血浆催乳素与精神分裂症患者临床反应的关系。
DOI:
10.1001/archpsyc.1978.01770340072008
复制
发表时间:
1978
影响因子:
--
通讯作者:
F. Halpern
中科院分区:
文献类型:
--
作者:
P. Gruen;E. Sachar;N. Altman;G. Langer;M. Tabrizi;F. Halpern
It has been suggested that, if dopamine antagonism is a necessary condition for the antischizophrenic action of neuroleptics, the prolactin response, as an index of dopamine blockade, would correlate with clinical response. Morning prolactin and clinical symptomatology were measured in 15 schizophrenic patients before neuroleptic therapy, and after three and six weeks of high-dose butaperazine or loxapine treatment. Prolactin levels were transiently elevated during the unmedicated admission period, probably reflecting a normal stress response. Prolactin increased in all patients during neuroleptic therapy. There was, however, no correlation between magnitude of prolactin changes and clinical response, probably because the prolactin response achieved a maximum at relatively low doses of neuroleptics.