Substance P-like immunoreactivity in plasma of psychotic patients and effects of neuroleptics and electroconvulsive therapy

Psychiatry Research
H KaiyaC Yanaihara

Abstract

Radioimmunoassay of substance P (SP)-like reactivity, using N alpha-tyrosyl-SP, was performed in plasma of psychotic patients. Schizophrenic patients under neuroleptic medication over 1 year, and those patients with organic brain disease showed a significant increase in immunoreactivity. The immunoreactivity in unmedicated schizophrenic patients just before treatment and in depressed patients, both bipolar and major, did not differ significantly from that of controls. The immunoreactivity in unmedicated schizophrenics was followed after medication for a maximum of 5 months. The reactivity decreased in five cases, and increased in three cases. No definite pattern could be discerned between changes in the immunoreactivity, the type of medication administered, and the resultant response to the therapy. Chlorpromazine injection caused no definite acute effect on the plasma level of SP-like immunoreactivity for 120 minutes. Electroconvulsive therapy increased the plasma level of SP-like immunoreactivity for 90 minutes in a male schizophrenic patient.

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