Action of antidepressant drugs on maternal stress-induced hypoactivity in female rats

Methods and Findings in Experimental and Clinical Pharmacology

Volumn 21, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 291-295

  Alonso, Simeona J ^a   Castellano, Miguel A ^a   Quintero, Miguel ^a   Navarro, Eduardo ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE LA LAGUNA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amitriptyline; Antidepressant drugs; Depression; Female rats; Forced swimming test; Imipramine; Immobility; Nomifensine; Porsolt test; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

AMITRIPTYLINE; IMIPRAMINE; NOMIFENSINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; MATERNAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; RAT; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMITRIPTYLINE; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; IMIPRAMINE; NOMIFENSINE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, MECHANICAL;

EID: 0032980193     PISSN: 03790355     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1358/mf.1999.21.4.538181     Document Type: Article

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