Author： Bai Shunjie Zhou Chanjuan Cheng Pengfei Fu Yuying Fang Liang Huang Wen Yu Jia Shao Weihua Wang Xinfa Liu Meiling Zhou Jingjing Xie Peng
Publisher： MDPI
E-ISSN： 1422-0067|16|4|8490-8504
ISSN： 1422-0067
Source： International Journal of Molecular Sciences, Vol.16, Iss.4, 2015-04, pp. : 8490-8504
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Abstract
Fluoxetine, a selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI), is a prescribed and effective antidepressant and generally used for the treatment of depression. Previous studies have revealed that the antidepressant mechanism of fluoxetine was related to astrocytes. However, the therapeutic mechanism underlying its mode of action in astrocytes remains largely unclear. In this study, primary astrocytes were exposed to 10 µM fluoxetine; 24 h post-treatment, a high-resolution proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H NMR)-based metabolomic approach coupled with multivariate statistical analysis was used to characterize the metabolic variations of intracellular metabolites. The orthogonal partial least-squares discriminant analysis (OPLS-DA) score plots of the spectra demonstrated that the fluoxetine-treated astrocytes were significantly distinguished from the untreated controls. In total, 17 differential metabolites were identified to discriminate the two groups. These key metabolites were mainly involved in lipids, lipid metabolism-related molecules and amino acids. This is the first study to indicate that fluoxetine may exert antidepressant action by regulating the astrocyte’s lipid and amino acid metabolism. These findings should aid our understanding of the biological mechanisms underlying fluoxetine therapy.
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