Chronic imipramine treatment partially reverses the long-term changes of hippocampal synaptic plasticity in socially stressed rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 309, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 153-156

  Von Frijtag, J C ^a   Kamal, A ^b   Reijmers, L G J E ^b   Schrama, L H ^b   Van den Bos, R ^a   Spruijt, B M ^a  

^a UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Defeat; Hippocampus; Imipramine; Long term depression; Long term potentiation; Psychosocial stress; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; IMIPRAMINE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM CARE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PROBLEM;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; DEPRESSION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMIPRAMINE; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0035979835     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02062-6     Document Type: Article

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