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SUBMITTER: Pilla Reddy V
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3603470 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Pilla Reddy V V Petersson K J KJ Suleiman A A AA Vermeulen A A Proost J H JH Friberg L E LE
CPT: pharmacometrics & systems pharmacology 20120926
A major problem in the treatment of schizophrenic patients with current antipsychotic drugs, mainly acting as dopamine-2 receptor antagonists, is the occurrence of side effects such as extrapyramidal symptoms (EPS). Meta-analyses of summary data of EPS occurrence, and receptor occupancies inferred from mean plasma concentrations, have shown the incidence of EPS to rise when receptor occupancy is above ~80%. In this analysis, individual longitudinal EPS data from 2,630 patients participating in o ...[more]