Forced swim test-induced endocrine and immune changes in the rat: Effect of subacute desipramine treatment

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 171-177

  Connor, Thomas J ^a   Kelly, John P ^a   Leonard, Brian E ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Depression; Desipramine; Endocrine; Forced swim test; Immune

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID; CORTICOSTERONE; DESIPRAMINE; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOMODULATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; LYMPHOCYTE PROLIFERATION; MALE; NEUTROPHIL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; ASCORBIC ACID; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DESIPRAMINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DRUG EVALUATION, PRECLINICAL; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; IMMUNE SYSTEM; LEUKOCYTES; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SWIMMING;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 0031973071     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(97)00316-X     Document Type: Article

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