No association is found between the candidate genes of t-PA/plasminogen system and Japanese methamphetamine-related disorder: a collaborative study by the Japanese Genetics Initiative for Drug Abuse

Ann N Y Acad Sci. 2004 Oct:1025:34-8. doi: 10.1196/annals.1316.004.

Abstract

In the central nervous system, tissue-plasminogen activator (t-PA)/plasmin system is involved in long-term synaptic plasticity and remodeling, and participates in rewarding effects of methamphetamine (MAP), by acutely regulating MAP-induced dopamine release in the nucleus accumbens. The aim of this study was to examine the relationships between the patients with MAP abusers/psychosis and the t-PA/plasminogen system genes. Subjects comprised 185 MAP abusers and 288 healthy controls. Four polymorphisms in the t-PA, plasminogen activator inhibitor, and plasminogen genes were examined in the present study. No significant differences were observed in each polymorphism between healthy controls and MAP abusers/psychosis. This study suggests that t-PA/plasminogen system is unlikely to be a major contributor to the substance abuse liability and/or the development of MAP psychosis.

Publication types

  • Comparative Study
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Amphetamine-Related Disorders / genetics*
  • Asian People / genetics*
  • Chi-Square Distribution
  • Gene Frequency / genetics
  • Genetic Linkage / genetics*
  • Humans
  • Methamphetamine*
  • Tissue Plasminogen Activator / genetics*

Substances

  • Methamphetamine
  • Tissue Plasminogen Activator