Fluvoxamine Influences Serotonergic System in the Brain: Neurochemical Evidence
Bibliographic record
Abstract
The effects of a relatively new antidepressant drug, fluvoxamine, were compared with those produced by chlorimipramine on the 5-hydroxytryptamine system in rat brain. Daily treatment with fluvoxamine (25 mg/kg, i.p.) and an equivalent dose of chlorimipramine (28 mg/kg, i.p.) for 7 days reduced (3H)5-hydroxytryptamine uptake by crude synaptosomes (P2 pellet) of brain to 56 and 45%, respectively, but produced no change in midbrain monoamine oxidase activity. Repeated administration of these drugs significantly decreased tryptophan hydroxylase activity as well as tryptophan level in the midbrain region. The concentration of 5-hydroxyindoleacetic acid also was lowered in several discrete areas of the brain, but no change was seen in the endogenous levels of 5-hydroxytryptamine. Our data suggest that fluvoxamine, like chlorimipramine, is a potent inhibitor of 5-hydroxytryptamine uptake. Unlike tricyclic antidepressants, fluvoxamine does not seem to produce any sedation in animals, which was evidenced by no significant change in spontaneous locomotor activity.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".