Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Treatment of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mental health disorder that is triggered by experiencing or witnessing a horrific event. Symptoms may include hallucinatory reliving, nightmares, and severe anxiety, as well as uncontrollable recall of something. PTSD can disrupt your entire life, such as your work, relationships, health status, and your interest in everyday activities. treatment for PTSD can help you regain a sense of control over your life. treatment for PTSD includes different options such as medication, psychotherapy, and combination therapy. Among them, antidepressants, anxiolytics, and prazosin may help relieve the symptoms of PTSD.
Key Targets for Anti-PTSD Drug Development
- 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors: 5-HT receptor agonists can improve symptoms of anxiety, fear, and stress, with 5-hydroxytryptamine 2A (5-HT2A) receptor agonists being the most commonly used.
- Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) receptors: GABA receptor agonists can reduce post-traumatic anxiety and stress.
- N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors: NMDA receptor antagonists reduce the excitability of related neurons and alleviate the memory and emotional responses that arise after trauma.
- Muscarinic receptors: Muscarinic receptor antagonists modulate the level of acetylcholine in the brain and improve cognition and attention, among other things.
- Intracerebroventricular peptide receptors: Intracerebroventricular peptide receptor agonists reduce anxiety and stress and improve sleep quality.
- Peripheral benzodiazepine receptors: Peripheral benzodiazepine receptor antagonists counteract symptoms caused by stressful abiotic and other factors.
How Can We Help?
Ace Therapeutics provides preclinical development services for anti-PTSD agents, including early drug screening, pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic assessments, toxicological evaluations, drug metabolism, and drug interaction studies.
- Early drug screening: We can select compounds with potential anti-PTSD effects through preliminary in vitro or in vivo evaluation.
- Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic evaluation: We can evaluate the absorption, distribution, metabolism, and excretion of drugs, as well as their effects on targets through in vivo pharmacokinetic (PK) and pharmacodynamic (PD) studies.
- Toxicological evaluation: We can evaluate the toxicity and safety of drugs for humans or animals, including acute toxicity, chronic toxicity, mutagenicity, carcinogenicity, reproductive toxicity, immunotoxicity, etc.
- Drug metabolism and drug interaction studies: We can study the metabolic pathways and metabolites of drugs, as well as the interactions between different drugs, including drug-drug interactions and drug-food interactions, etc.
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Ace Therapeutics' scientists have extensive backgrounds in pharmacology, chemistry, and biology and understand all the processes required for drug development. Our drug development services include various aspects of drug design, drug manufacturing, and drug evaluation. Our services can help reduce your development time and costs, improve the quality and efficacy of your drug, and provide specialized knowledge and skills. If you are interested in our services, please make an inquiry to learn how we can support you in your project.
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