Bibliographic record
Abstract
Paroxetine is a potent and selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) with currently approved indications for the treatment of depression, obsessive-compulsive disorder, panic disorder and social phobia. It is also used in the treatment of generalized anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder, premenstrual dysphoric disorder and chronic headache. Paroxetine, a phenylpiperidine derivative, is the most potent inhibitor of the reuptake of serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine, 5-HT) of all the currently available antidepressants including the class of SSRIs. It is a very weak inhibitor of norepinephrine (NE) uptake but it is still more potent at this site than the other SSRIs. The selectivity of paroxetine, i.e., the ratio of inhibition of uptake of norepinephrine to serotonin (NE/5-HT) is amongst the highest of the SSRIs. Paroxetine has little affinity for catecholaminergic, dopaminergic or histaminergic systems and by comparison with tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) has, therefore, a reduced propensity to cause central and autonomic side effects. Paroxetine exhibits some affinity for the muscarinic cholinergic receptor but much less than the TCAs. In addition, the adaptive changes of somatodendritic (5-HT(1A)) and terminal (5-HT(1B/1D)) autoreceptors observed with paroxetine are different to those observed with TCAs; it also inhibits nitric oxide synthase. It is both a substrate and an inhibitor of cytochrome isoenzyme P450 2D6. Paroxetine is well absorbed orally and undergoes extensive first pass metabolism that is partially saturable. Its metabolites are pharmacologically inactive in vivo. Steady state levels are achieved after 4-14 days and an elimination half-life of 21 h is consistent with once-daily dosing. There is wide inter-individual variation in the pharmacokinetics of paroxetine in adults as well as in the young and the elderly with higher plasma concentrations and slower elimination noted in the latter. Elimination is also reduced in severe renal and hepatic impairment. Serious adverse events are, however, extremely rare even in overdose. In summary, paroxetine is well tolerated and effective in the treatment of both depressive and anxiety disorders across the age range.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.012 | 0.006 |
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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".