Chiara C Bortolasci, Emily J Jaehne, Damián Hernández, Briana Spolding, Timothy Connor, Bruna Panizzutti, Olivia M Dean, Tamsyn M Crowley, Alison R Yung, Laura Gray, Jee Hyun Kim, Maarten van den Buuse, Michael Berk, Ken Walder
Novel approaches are required to find new treatments for schizophrenia and other neuropsychiatric disorders. This study utilised a combination of in vitro transcriptomics and in silico analysis with the BROAD Institute's Connectivity Map to identify drugs that can be repurposed to treat psychiatric disorders. Human neuronal (NT2-N) cells were treated with a combination of atypical antipsychotic drugs commonly used to treat psychiatric disorders (such as schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, and major depressive disorder), and differential gene expression was analysed...
December 2023: Neurotoxicity Research