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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Apr 5.
Published in final edited form as: Pharmacol Rev. 2008 Sep;60(3):358–403. doi: 10.1124/pr.107.00107

TABLE 2.

Regulation of neurotrophic factors by antipsychotic drug treatments in animals and schizophrenic patients

Treatment Factor/Region Effect Reference
Atypical
 Clozapine (10 mg/kg, 28 days) BDNF/HP Decreased Lipska et al., 2001
 Clozapine (20 mg/kg, 19 days) BDNF/HP No Effect Chlan-Fourney et al., 2002
 Clozapine (27 mg/kg, 28 days) BDNF/HP Decreased Bai et al., 2003
 Olanzapine (2.7 mg/kg, 28 days) BDNF/HP Increased Bai et al., 2003
 Olanzapine (15 mg/kg, 30 days) BDNF/HP Decreased Angelucci et al., 2005
 Olanzapine (10 mg/kg, 45 days) BDNF/HP No effect Parikh et al., 2004a
 Risperidone (2.3 mg/100g food, 19 days) BDNF/HP, FrCtx Decreased Angelucci et al., 2000b
 Risperidone (1 mg/kg, 19 days) BDNF/HP No effect Chlan-Fourney et al., 2002
 Risperidone (4 mg/kg, 19 days) BDNF/HP Decreased Chlan-Fourney et al., 2002
 Olanzapine (15 mg/kg) NGF/HP, OcCtx Increased Angelucci et al., 2005
 Risperidone (2.3 mg/100g food, 19 days) NGF/HP, Striatum Decreased Angelucci et al., 2000a
 Clozapine (10 mg/kg, 21 days) FGF2/PfrCtx, Striatum Increased Riva et al., 1999; Maragnoli et al., 2004
Typical
 Haloperidol (1.15 mg/100g food, 19 days) BDNF/HP, FrCtx Decreased Angelucci et al., 2000b
 Haloperidol (1 mg/kg, 28 days) BDNF/HP Decreased Lipska et al., 2001
 Haloperidol (2 mg/kg, 21 days) BDNF/HP, FrCtx Decreased Nibuya et al., 1995
 Haloperidol (1 mg/kg, 28 days) BDNF/HP Decreased Bai et al., 2003
 Haloperidol (1 mg/kg, 19 days) BDNF/HP Decreased Chlan-Fourney et al., 2002
 Haloperidol (2 mg/kg) BDNF/HP Decreased Parikh et al., 2004a
 Haloperidol (1 mg/kg, 3 days) BDNF/Amy, Ctx Decreased Meredith et al., 2004
 Ritanserin (2 mg/kg, 19 days) BDNF/HP (CA1) Decreased Chlan-Fourney et al., 2002
 Eticlopride (3 mg/kg, 3 days) BDNF/Amy, Ctx Decreased Meredith et al., 2004
 Haloperidol (1.15 mg/100g food, 19 days) NGF/HP, striatum Decreased Angelucci et al., 2000a
 Haloperidol (1 mg/kg, 21 days) FGF2/striatum No effect Riva et al., 1999
Schizophrenia models
 Ibotinic acid lesion BDNF/HP, PfrCtx Decreased Lipska et al., 2001; Ashe et al., 2002
 MK-801 BDNF/HP Decreased Fumagalli et al., 2003b
 MK-801 + quetiapine BDNF/HP Normalized Fumagalli et al., 2003b
 MK-801 + haloperidol BDNF/HP Decreased Fumagalli et al., 2003b
 Stress BDNF/HP Decreased Smith et al. 1995; Luo et al, 2004
 Stress + olanzapine BDNF/HP Increased Luo et al., 2004
Postmortem
 Schizophrenic BDNF/Ctx Decreased Durany et al., 2001
 Schizophrenic BDNF/PfrCtx Decreased Weickert et al., 2003, 2005
 Schizophrenic BDNF/Serum Decreased Toyooka et al., 2002
 Schizophrenic BDNF/Serum No effect Shimizu et al., 2003
 Schizophrenic BDNF/Serum Decreased Tan et al., 2005

HP, hippocampus; OcCtx, occipital cortex; FrCtx, frontal cortex; Amy, amygdala; CTx, cortex; PFRCtx, prefrontal cortex.