Effect of chronic mild stress and prolonged treatment with imipramine on the levels of endogenous Met-enkephalin in the rat dopaminergic mesolimbic system

Polish Journal of Pharmacology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 53-56

  Dziedzicka Wasylewska, Maria ^a   Papp, Mariusz ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

chronic mild stress; imipramine; Met enkephalin; nucleus accumbens; ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

IMIPRAMINE; METENKEPHALIN;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; MESOLIMBIC DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; STRESS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSION; ENKEPHALIN, METHIONINE; IMIPRAMINE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 0029889873     PISSN: 12306002     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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