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Chlorpromazine uncoupled the oxidative phosphorylation of brain mitochondria and inhibited cytochrome oxidase in concentrations not affecting overall oxidation. Since the drug inhibits the ATP-ase activity of mitochondria, it presumably does not uncouple by accelerating high energy phosphate breakdown. The suggestion has been made that chlorpromazine acts by reversibly altering intramitochondrial relationships.
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