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Published in final edited form as: Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry. 2021 Aug 17;112:110428. doi: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2021.110428

Table 4:

Summary of pre-clinical and clinical studies

Pre-clinical studies Clinical studies
Early life stress has long term effect on NPY levels and vulnerability to depression and stress (Husum and Mathe, 2002) Insuflated NPY as antidepressant, a randomized controlled trial in MDD patients (Mathe et al., 2020)
Anxiolytic effect of intracerebroventircularly administered NPY in brain of rats of anxiety models (Heilig et al., 1989) Intranasal administration of NPY as a novel treatment approach for the patients of PTSD (Sayed et al., 2018)
Anxiolytic effect of NPY is mediated through NPY1R (Broqua et al., 1995; Nakajima et al., 1998; Nwokafor et al., 2020; Sajdyk et al., 2002a) Lower NPY levels in depressed patients which increased upon treatment with anti-depressants (Ozsoy et al., 2016)
NPY1R receptor antagonist treatment to Sprague-Dawley rats of chronic restraint stress model abolished the adaptation to stress (Yang et al., 2018) Increased expression of NPY1 & 2R in postmortem brains of suicide victims (Caberlotto and Hurd, 2001)
NPY1R knockout induced anxiety and depression like behavior in FST rats (Karlsson et al., 2008) Increased NPY levels in CSF and plasma of patients having MDD and other psychiatric illness (Lu et al., 2019; Soleimani et al., 2014)
Deletion/suppression of NPY2R is correlated with increased NPY levels and enhanced anxiolytic /anti-depressant like effect (Morales-Medina et al., 2010; Redrobe et al., 2003) Reduced NPY levels in different brain regions of bipolar disorder patients (Kuromitsu et al., 2001; Sandberg et al., 2014)
Anxiolytic function of NPY1R and NPY5R, anxiogenic effect of NPY5R (Sajdyk et al., 2002a; Sajdyk et al., 2002b) Higher CSF NPY levels in baseline depressed patients (Martinez et al., 2012)
Altered NPY levels in brain of different animal models of depression such as Flinders sensitive rats, maternal separation as genetic model of depression (Caberlotto et al., 1999; Jimenez-Vasquez et al., 2001; Miragaia et al., 2018) Region specific NPY reduction in brain and reduced NPY levels in plasma and CSF of patients with history of depression and suicide attempts (Hashimoto et al., 1996; Heilig et al., 2004; Hou et al., 2006; Nilsson et al., 1996; Wahlestedt and Heilig, 1995; Widdowson et al., 1992)
NPY levels play important role in stress and depression treatment (Crespi, 2011) CSF NPY reduced with anti-depressant treatment (Olsson et al., 2004)
Antidepressants desipramine and citalopram induced increase in NPY levels in brain of experimental animals (Heilig et al., 1988) Decreased NPY levels correlated with suicide attempts (Westrin et al., 1999; Westrin et al., 1998; Widdowson et al., 1992)
No changes in anxiety or stress levels upon treatment with NPY5R antagonist (Kask et al., 2001)

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