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. 2013 Jan 30;16(6):1433–1442. doi: 10.1017/S1461145712001605

Table 1.

Receptor profiles for the new multi-modal antidepressants compared with commonly used SSRIs and SNRIsa, b

Drug 5-HT1A 5-HT1B 5-HT2C 5-HT3 5-HT7 SERT inhibition NET inhibition DAT inhibition α1-adrenergic
SSRI Citalopram (Airaksinen et al., 2004) + + +
Fluoxetine (Porter et al., 2003;  Mondal et al., 2007) ++ + + + ++
SNRI Duloxetine (Fava et al., 2006) + + + + + + +
Venlafaxine (Herrera- Guzman et al., 2010) + + + ++
Multi-modal Vilazodone (Laughren et al., 2011) + + + + + +
Vortioxetine (Artigas et al., 1996) + + + + + + + + + + + + + + + ++
Amitifadine/DOV 216,303 + + + + + + + + +

SSRI, serotonin reuptake inhibitor; SNRI, serotonin and norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor; SERT, serotonin transporter; NET, norepinephrine transporter; DAT, dopamine transporter; +, weak affinity, + + , moderate affinity; + + +, strong affinity.

a

Based on data from Artigas et al. (1996), Porter et al. (2003), Airaksinen et al. (2004), Fava et al. (2006), Mondal et al. (2007), Herrera-Guzman et al. (2010) and Laughren et al. (2011).

b

Due to the lack of data, brexpiprazole (OPC-34712) is not presented.