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Association study of cannabinoid receptor 1 (CNR1) gene in tardive dyskinesia.
The pharmacogenomics journal - 1 Jun 2012
Tiwari A K, Zai C C, Likhodi O, Voineskos A N, Meltzer H Y, Lieberman J A, Potkin S G, Remington G, Müller D J, Kennedy J L
Abstract excerpt
Tardive dyskinesia (TD) is a severe, debilitating movement disorder observed in 25-30% of the patients treated with typical antipsychotics. Cannabinoid receptor 1 (CNR1) activators tend to inhibit movement, an effect prevented by rimonabant and other selective CNR1 antagonists. Furthermore, CNR1 receptor is downregulated in Huntington's disease and upregulated in Parkinson's disease. Twenty tagSNPs spanning the...
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