Positron Emission Tomography Measurement of Dopamine D2 Receptor Occupancy in the Pituitary and Cerebral Cortex: Relation to Antipsychotic-Induced Hyperprolactinemia
Positron Emission Tomography Measurement of Dopamine D2 Receptor Occupancy in the Pituitary and Cerebral Cortex: Relation to Antipsychotic-Induced Hyperprolactinemia
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DOI:
10.4088/jcp.08m04307yel
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发表时间:
2010-09-01
影响因子:
5.3
通讯作者:
Suhara, Tetsuya
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作者:
Arakawa, Ryosuke;Okumura, Masaki;Suhara, Tetsuya
Objective: Hyperprolactinemia is a common side effect of antipsychotic drugs used in the treatment of schizophrenia. However, the magnitude of hyperprolactinemia differs among antipsychotics, and there is no reliable mechanism-related marker for the risk of hyperprolactinemia that would allow us to characterize antipsychotics.Method: In this study, 11 healthy male subjects taking different doses of sulpiride and 24 male patients with DSM-IV-diagnosed schizophrenia taking different antipsychotic drugs (risperidone, olanzapine, haloperidol, and sulpiride) participated. Positron emission tomography scanning using [C-11] FLB 457 was performed on all subjects. The dopamine D-2 receptor occupancy of antipsychotics in the pituitary and temporal cortex was calculated. Correlations between plasma concentration of prolactin and dopamine D-2 receptor occupancies were evaluated. The ratio of drug concentration of cerebral receptor site to that of pituitary receptor site (brain/plasma concentration ratio; B/P ratio) was calculated from the receptor occupancies in the 2 regions. Data were collected between November 2001 and September 2007.Results: Significant positive correlation was observed between the plasma concentration of prolactin and dopamine D-2 receptor occupancy in the pituitary by all 4 antipsychotics (P = .001). Dopamine D-2 receptor occupancies of sulpiride were markedly different between the pituitary and temporal cortex, and the B/P ratio for sulpiride (0.34) was significantly lower than for olanzapine (P = .007) and risperidone (P = .015). Olanzapine had a relatively high B/P ratio (2.70), followed by haloperidol (2.40) and risperidone (1.61).Conclusions: Dopamine D-2 receptor occupancy in the pituitary is a good indicator of hyperprolactinemia. B/P ratio, indicating the penetrating capability across the blood-brain barrier, seems to be a good characteristic biomarker of each antipsychotic drug for the risk of hyperprolactinemia at therapeutic dose. J Clin Psychiatry 2010;71(9):1131 1137 (C) Copyright 2010 Physicians Postgraduate Press, Inc.