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Title: Effects of psilocin and psilocybin on human 5-HT4 serotonin receptors in atrial preparations of transgenic mice and humans
Author(s): Neumann, JoachimLook up in the Integrated Authority File of the German National Library
Dimov, Kiril
Azatsian, Karyna
Hofmann, BrittLook up in the Integrated Authority File of the German National Library
Gergs, UlrichLook up in the Integrated Authority File of the German National Library
Issue Date: 2024
Type: Article
Language: English
Abstract: Several fungi belonging to the genus Psilocybe, also called “magic mushrooms”, contain the hallucinogenic drugs psilocybin and psilocin. They are chemically related to serotonin (5-HT). In addition to being abused as drugs, they are now also being discussed or used as a treatment option for depression. Here, we hypothesized that psilocybin and psilocin may act also on cardiac serotonin receptors and studied them in vitro in atrial preparations of our transgenic mouse model with cardiac myocytes-specific overexpression of the human 5-HT4 receptor (5-HT4-TG) as well as in human atrial preparations. Both psilocybin and psilocin enhanced the force of contraction in isolated left atrial preparations from 5-HT4-TG, increased the beating rate in isolated spontaneously beating right atrial preparations from 5-HT4-TG and augmented the force of contraction in the human atrial preparations. The inotropic and chronotropic effects of psilocybin and psilocin at 10 µM were smaller than that of 1 µM 5-HT on the left and right atria from 5-HT4-TG, respectively. Psilocybin and psilocin were inactive in WT. In the human atrial preparations, inhibition of the phosphodiesterase III by cilostamide was necessary to unmask the positive inotropic effects of psilocybin or psilocin. The effects of 10 µM psilocybin and psilocin were abrogated by 10 µM tropisetron or by 1 µM GR125487, a more selective 5-HT4 receptor antagonist. In summary, we demonstrated that psilocin and psilocybin act as agonists on cardiac 5-HT4 receptors.
URI: https://opendata.uni-halle.de//handle/1981185920/120225
http://dx.doi.org/10.25673/118266
Open Access: Open access publication
License: (CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0(CC BY 4.0) Creative Commons Attribution 4.0
Journal Title: Toxicology letters
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Publisher Place: Amsterdam [u.a.]
Volume: 398
Original Publication: 10.1016/j.toxlet.2024.06.006
Page Start: 55
Page End: 64
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