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ReviewFrontiers in psychiatry2025

Influence of antipsychotic drugs on microglia-mediated neuroinflammation in schizophrenia: perspectives in an astrocyte-microglia co-culture model.

Timo Jendrik Faustmann, Franco Corvace, Pedro M Faustmann, Fatme Seval Ismail

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Review in Frontiers in psychiatry, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

6 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Timo Jendrik FaustmannDepartment of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Medical Faculty, Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Franco CorvaceDepartment of Neuroanatomy and Molecular Brain Research, Medical Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Pedro M FaustmannDepartment of Neuroanatomy and Molecular Brain Research, Medical Faculty, Ruhr University Bochum, Bochum, Germany.
Fatme Seval IsmailDepartment of Neurology, Klinikum Vest, Academic Teaching Hospital of the Ruhr University Bochum, Recklinghausen, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Schizophrenia is a severe mental disorder with a strong lifetime impact on patients' health and wellbeing. Usually, symptomatic treatment includes typical or atypical antipsychotics. Study findings show an involvement of low-grade inflammation (blood, brain parenchyma, and cerebrospinal fluid) in schizophrenia. Moreover, experimental and neuropathological evidence suggests that reactive microglia, which are the main resident immune cells of the central nervous system (CNS), have a negative impact on the differentiation and function of oligodendrocytes, glial progenitor cells, and astrocytes, which results in the disruption of neuronal networks and dysregulated synaptic transmission, contributing to the pathophysiology of schizophrenia. Here, the role of microglial cells related to neuroinflammation in schizophrenia was discussed to be essential. This review aims to summarize the evidence for the influence of antipsychotics on microglial inflammatory mechanisms in schizophrenia. Furthermore, we propose an established astrocyte-microglia co-culture model for testing regulatory mechanisms and examining the effects of antipsychotics on glia-mediated neuroinflammation. This could lead to a better understanding of how typical and atypical antipsychotics can be used to address positive and negative symptoms in schizophrenia and comorbidities like inflammatory diseases or the status of low-grade inflammation.

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antipsychotic drugsastrocyte-microglia co-culture modelglianeuroinflammationpsychotic disordersschizophrenia

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PMID40171306
PMCPMC11959008

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