Saturday, July 20, 2013

Mood disorders: A new target for antidepressant drugs

Mood disorders: A new target for antidepressant drugs
Nature Reviews Neuroscience - Issue - nature.com science feeds

Nature Reviews Neuroscience 14, 520 (2013). doi:10.1038/nrn3554

Author: Monica Hoyos Flight

The mechanisms of action of most antidepressants are unclear. A study in Nature Medicine now shows that therapeutic concentrations of the antidepressants amitriptyline and fluoxetine reduced the activity of acid sphingomyelinase (ASM), an enzyme that releases ceramide from sphingomyelin, in both cultured neurons and

Original Article: http://feeds.nature.com/~r/nrn/rss/current/~3/APK53uJVxDY/nrn3554

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