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Combined administration of muscarinic receptor antagonists and group II/III metabotropic glutamate (mGlu) receptor ligands as a novel efficacious method to treat depression - the preclinical studies

2020/37/B/NZ7/03499

Keywords:

Depression scopolamine muscarinic receptors M1 receptors M2 receptors M3 receptors M4 receptors M5 receptors metabotropic receptors for glutamate mGlu2 receptors mGlu3 receptors mGlu7 receptors antidepressant effects

Descriptors:

  • NZ7_014:
  • NZ5_007:

Panel:

NZ7 - Diagnostic tools, therapies and public health: public health, epidemiology, environmental health risks and occupational medicine, medical ethics, drug discovery and therapies, pharmacology

Host institution :

Instytut Farmakologii im. Jerzego Maja Polskiej Akademii Nauk

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

prof. Andrzej Mikołaj Pilc 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 6

Call: OPUS 19 - announced on 2020-03-16

Amount awarded: 2 980 248 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2021-01-14

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2026-01-13

Project duration:: 60 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Pending project

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (4)
  1. Interaction of hallucinogenic rapid‑acting antidepressants with mGlu2/3 receptor ligands as a window for more effective therapies
    Authors:
    Barbara Chruścicka‑Smaga, · Agata Machaczka, · Bernadeta Szewczyk, · Andrzej Pilc
    Academic press:
    Pharmacological Reports (rok: 2023, tom: 75/6, strony: 1341-1349), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s43440-023-00547-4 - link to the publication
  2. Where do we go next in antidepressant drug discovery? A new generation of antidepressants: a pivotal role of AMPA receptor potentiation and mGlu2/3 receptor antagonism
    Authors:
    Pilc, A., Machaczka, A., Kawalec, P., Smith, J.L., Witkin, J.M.
    Academic press:
    Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery (rok: 2022, tom: 17-10, strony: 1131-1146), Wydawca: Taylor&Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/17460441.2022.2111415 - link to the publication
  3. Where do we go next in antidepressant drug discovery? A new generation of antidepressants: a pivotal role of AMPA receptor potentiation and mGlu2/3 receptor antagonism
    Authors:
    Pilc, A., Machaczka, A., Kawalec, P., Smith, J.L., Witkin, J.M.
    Academic press:
    Expert Opinion on Drug Discovery (rok: 2022, tom: 17-10, strony: 1131-1146), Wydawca: Taylor&Francis
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1080/17460441.2022.2111415 - link to the publication
  4. The Potential of Scopolamine as an Antidepressant in Major Depressive Disorder: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials
    Authors:
    Paweł Mocko, Katarzyna ´ Sladowska, Paweł Kawalec, Yana Babii and Andrzej Pilc
    Academic press:
    Biomedicines (rok: 2023, tom: 11, strony: 45669), Wydawca: MDPI
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3390/biomedicines11102636 - link to the publication