A cell membrane correlate of tardive dyskinesia in patients treated with phenothiazines
- 1 January 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in Psychopharmacology
- Vol. 88 (2), 230-236
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00652246
Abstract
Phenothiazine administration to psychiatric patients is associated with an increase in the “structural order” of platelet membranes as determined by steady-state fluorescence polarization measurements with 1,6-diphenyl-1,3,5-hexatriene (DPH), a fluorescent probe that localizes preferentially in the hydrocarbon region of cell membranes (Zubenko and Cohen 1984, 1985a, b). In this study, platelet membranes prepared from a group of psychiatric patients who developed tardive dyskinesia following chronic treatment with phenothiazines exhibited a significant elevation in DPH fluorescence polarization when compared to similar preparations from an otherwise matched group of patients who had no symptoms or history of tardive dyskinesia. The distribution of polarization values obtained for the tardive dyskinesia group displayed minimal overlap with that of an unmedicated, psychiatrically-healthy control group matched for age and gender. The fluorescence polarization of DPH-labelled platelet membranes was not significantly correlated with phenothiazine daily dose or serum cholesterol concentration in the phenothiazine-treated patient groups, or with dyskinesia severity (AIMS rating) in the tardive dyskinesia group. Patient gender and the presence of an affective disorder did not significantly correlate with DPH fluorescence polarization. The potential physiological and clinical significance of these findings is discussed.This publication has 71 references indexed in Scilit:
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