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Polymers (Basel)
October 2024
Department of Pharmaceutics and Pharmaceutical Technology, Faculty of Pharmaceutics and Medical Sciences, Petra University, Amman 11196, Jordan.
Imipramine hydrochloride (IMP), a tricyclic antidepressant used for major depression, enuresis, and neuropathic pain, is limited by gastrointestinal complications, low oral bioavailability (44%), and complex dosing requirements. This study aimed to explore a novel non-invasive nasal delivery system using chitosan nanoparticles (Cs NPs) embedded in an in situ gel to address the limitations of oral IMP administration. Cs NPs loaded with IMP were synthesized via ionic gelation and assessed for precision in drug concentration using a validated HPLC method.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFJ Psychopharmacol
November 2024
International Consortium for Mood and Psychotic Disorders Research, Mailman Research Center, McLean Hospital, Belmont, MA, USA.
Background: Whether responses to treatment of major depressive episodes differ between women and men or with bipolar (BD) and major depressive disorders (MDD) remains unresolved.
Aims: To test for diagnostic and sex differences in responses to treatment of depression.
Methods: We compared changes in the 21-item Hamilton Depression Rating Scale (HDRS) ratings of depression ( = 3243) between women (64.
Transl Psychiatry
October 2024
The National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders & Beijing Key Laboratory of Mental Disorders, Beijing Anding Hospital & Advanced Innovation Center for Human Brain Protection, Capital Medical University, 100088, Beijing, China.
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a common disease affecting 300 million people worldwide. The existing drugs are ineffective for approximately 30% of patients, so it is urgent to develop new antidepressant drugs with novel mechanisms. Here, we found that norisoboldine (NOR) showed an antidepressant efficacy in the chronic social defeat stress (CSDS) depression model in the tail suspension, forced swimming, and sucrose consumption tests.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAndrology
September 2024
Department of Urology, Tianjin Medical University General Hospital, Tianjin, China.
Introduction: Antidepressants may lead to a series of sexual adverse effects (SAEs), among which ejaculation dysfunction (EjD) is often overlooked by clinicians. The purpose of the present network meta-analysis was to assist drug adjustment by comparing and ranking the incidence of EjD among various antidepressants.
Methods: Relevant studies were retrieved from PubMed, Embase, Scopus, Web of Science, ClinicalTrials.
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