A facile fluorometric assay using D-kynurenine as a substrate was utilized for evaluating the inhibition of D-amino acid oxidase (DAAO), which is one of the products of a susceptibility gene for schizophrenia, by commercial antipsychotic drugs, namely, chlorpromazine (CPZ), carbamazepine, sulpiride, quetiapine, and imipramine. CPZ inhibited DAAO (65.8 +/- 13.2 mu M, n=3) as reported previously, and other drugs also inhibited DAAO activity. Among these, quetiapine had the smallest IC50 value (19.5 +/- 2.60 mu M, n=3). The proposed assay can be useful for the evaluation or screening of DAAO-inhibitory drugs.