Effect of thioridazine on antioxidant status of HEMn-DP melanocytes

Thioridazine as an antipsychotic agent was extensively used to treat various psychotic disorders, e.g. schizophrenia. However, the therapy with this drug can induce serious side effects such as extrapyramidal symptoms or ocular and skin disorders, which mechanisms are still not fully established. To gain inside the molecular mechanisms underlying thioridazine toxicity, we examined the effect of this drug on cell viability, antioxidant defence system as well as melanogenesis in normal human melanocytes. It was demonstrated that thioridazine induces concentration-dependent loss in cell viability. The value of EC50 was calculated to be 2.24 μM. To study the effect of thioridazine on antioxidant defence system in melanocytes, the level of hydrogen peroxide and the activities of antioxidant enzymes superoxide dismutase, catalase and glutathione peroxidase were determined. The drug in concentrations of 0.1, 0.25, 1.0 and 2.5 μM caused changes in cellular antioxidant defence system indicating the induction of oxidative stress. It was also shown that the analysed neuroleptic in concentrations of 1.0 and 2.5 μM significantly inhibited melanogenesis. The observed changes in cell viability, antioxidant defence system and melanization in normal human melanocytes after thioridazine treatment may explain an important role of reactive oxygen species as well as melanin in mechanisms involved in this drug side effects directed on pigmented tissues..

Medienart:

Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2015

Erschienen:

2015

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:388

Enthalten in:

Naunyn-Schmiedeberg's archives of pharmacology - 388(2015), 10, Seite 1097-1104

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Otręba, Michał [VerfasserIn]
Beberok, Artur [Sonstige Person]
Wrześniok, Dorota [Sonstige Person]
Rok, Jakub [Sonstige Person]
Buszman, Ewa [Sonstige Person]

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Themen:

Antioxidant enzymes
Biomedicine
Hydrogen peroxide
Melanocytes
Neurosciences
Pharmacology/Toxicology
Thioridazine

doi:

10.1007/s00210-015-1144-z

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

OLC1963412028