Serotonin clearance in vivo is altered to a greater extent by antidepressant-induced downregulation of the serotonin transporter than by acute blockade of this transporter

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 15, 2002, Pages 6766-6772

  Benmansour, Saloua ^a   Owens, William A ^a   Cecchi, Marco ^a   Morilak, David A ^a   Frazer, Alan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

^b SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Chronoamperometry; Downregulation; MRNA; Serotonin transporter; Sertraline

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; SERTRALINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCHEMISTRY; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; SEROTONIN UPTAKE;

EID: 0036703989     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.22-15-06766.2002     Document Type: Article

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