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ArticleBiomolecules2026

Interactions of the Tricyclic Antidepressant Drug Amitriptyline with L-DOPA in the Nucleus Accumbens, Prefrontal Cortex and Hippocampus of Unilaterally 6-OHDA-Lesioned Rats: Relevance to Depression in Parkinson's Disease.

Kinga Kamińska, Tomasz Lenda, Jolanta Konieczny, Elżbieta Lorenc-Koci

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Article in Biomolecules, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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Kinga KamińskaMaj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smętna Street 12, 31-343 Kraków, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-1359-8860
Tomasz LendaMaj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smętna Street 12, 31-343 Kraków, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-4800-6511
Jolanta KoniecznyMaj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smętna Street 12, 31-343 Kraków, Poland.
Elżbieta Lorenc-KociMaj Institute of Pharmacology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Smętna Street 12, 31-343 Kraków, Poland.ORCID 0000-0002-9970-8548

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Maj Institute of Pharmacology The Statutory Fund
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The effects of antidepressants on limbic structures, important in the context of the treatment of Parkinson's disease (PD)-associated depression, are relatively poorly explored in animal models. The present study investigated the impact of the tricyclic antidepressant amitriptyline (AMI), administered chronically alone or in combination with L-DOPA, on anhedonia, monoamine levels, and the binding of radioligands to their transporters in the limbic structures of unilaterally 6-OHDA-lesioned rats. Anhedonia, as a core symptom of depression, was evaluated using the sucrose preference test. Tissue concentrations of noradrenaline (NA), dopamine (DA) and serotonin (5-HT) and their metabolites in the prefrontal cortex (PFC) and hippocampus (HIP) were assayed by HPLC method. Bindings of [

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AmitriptylineAntidepressive Agents, TricyclicDepressionHippocampusLevodopaNucleus AccumbensParkinson DiseasePrefrontal CortexAnimalsDopamineDopamine Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsMaleOxidopamineRatsRats, WistarSerotoninAmitriptylineAntidepressive Agents, TricyclicDopamineDopamine Plasma Membrane Transport ProteinsLevodopaOxidopamineSerotonin6-OHDAamitriptylinedepressionhippocampusL-DOPAlesionnucleus accumbensParkinson’s diseaseprefrontal cortex

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PMID42194091
PMCPMC13204236

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