Search for novel antipsychotic drugs: dopamine forever?
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Search for novel antipsychotic drugs: dopamine forever?
During the history of antipsychotic medications, the dopamine D2 receptor has been the crucial main target of drug action. Typical antipsychotics, which dominated the first 25 years of antipsychotic treatment as well as atypical antipsychotics, medications of the last three decades, all retained dopamine D2 receptor antagonism as the basic mode of action. Whether the superior side-effect profil...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Pharmacology
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1471-2210
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2210-9-s2-a52