ArticleOncotarget2017
Antidepressants, sertraline and paroxetine, increase calcium influx and induce mitochondrial damage-mediated apoptosis of astrocytes.
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- Therapeutic Repurposing of Sertraline: Evidence for Its Antifungal Activity from In Vitro, In Vivo, and Clinical Studies.Microorganisms · 2025Review
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- Folic Acid Mitigates Sertraline-Induced Liver Damage in Adult Female Albino Rats During Pregnancy and Postpartum: A Biochemical and Histological Study.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2025Article
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- MADD-like pattern of acylcarnitines associated with sertraline use.Molecular genetics and metabolism reports · 2024Article
- Modulation of ACE2/Ang1-7/Mas and ACE/AngII/AT1 axes affects anticancer properties of sertraline in MCF-7 breast cancer cells.Biochemistry and biophysics reports · 2024Article
- Circulating cell-free mitochondrial DNA levels and glucocorticoid sensitivity in a cohort of male veterans with and without combat-related PTSD.Translational psychiatry · 2024Article
- Role of Serotonergic System in Regulating Brain Tumor-Associated Neuroinflammatory Responses.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2024Article
- Antidepressant Sertraline Hydrochloride Inhibits the Growth of HER2+ AU565 Breast Cancer Cell Line through Induction of Apoptosis and Cell Cycle Arrest.Anti-cancer agents in medicinal chemistry · 2024Article
- Neuroinflammation and major depressive disorder: astrocytes at the crossroads.Frontiers in cellular neuroscience · 2024Review
- Upregulation of S100A8 in peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with depression treated with SSRIs: a pilot study.Proteome science · 2023Article
- Modifiable contributing factors to COVID-19: A comprehensive review.Food and chemical toxicology : an international journal published for the British Industrial Biological Research Association · 2023Review
- Antidepressant sertraline increases thioflavin-S and Congo red deposition in APPswe/PSEN1dE9 transgenic mice.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The impacts of antidepressants on the pathogenesis of dementia remain unclear despite depression and dementia are closely related. Antidepressants have been reported may impair serotonin-regulated adaptive processes, increase neurological side-effects and cytotoxicity. An 'astroglio-centric' perspective of neurodegenerative diseases proposes astrocyte dysfunction is involved in the impairment of proper central nervous system functioning. Thus, defining whether antidepressants are harmful to astrocytes is an intriguing issue. We used an astrocyte cell line, primary cultured astrocytes and neuron cells, to identify the effects of 11 antidepressants which included selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, a serotonin-norepinephrine reuptake inhibitor, tricyclic antidepressants, a tetracyclic antidepressant, a monoamine oxide inhibitor, and a serotonin antagonist and reuptake inhibitor. We found that treatment with 10 μM sertraline and 20 μM paroxetine significantly reduced cell viability. We further explored the underlying mechanisms and found induction of the [Ca
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