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Plasma Levels of Cytokines and Soluble Cytokine Receptors During Treatment With Haloperidol

OBJECTIVE: Clozapine increases the levels of cytokines and soluble cytokine receptors. The authors investigated whether haloperidol has similar effects. METHOD: Rectal temperature, white blood cell counts, and plasma levels of cytokines and soluble cytokine receptors were assessed before and during 6 weeks of haloperidol treatment in 10 psychiatric patients. RESULTS: Haloperidol at mean doses of 7.0 mg/day (SD=3.4), 6.9 mg/day (SD=3.4), and 5.0 mg/day (SD=3.1) at the end of the 1st, 2nd, and 6th weeks of treatment, respectively, did not affect rectal temperature, white blood cell counts, or plasma level of interleukin-1 receptor antagonist, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factor—alpha (TNF-), soluble TNF receptor p55 or p75, or soluble interleukin-2 receptor. CONCLUSIONS: Haloperidol is unlikely to confound the results of studies investigating disease-related alterations in the levels of a broad range of cytokines and soluble cytokine receptors in schizophrenia. (Am J Psychiatry 1997; 154:1763–1765)

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