Chronic administration of fluoxetine impairs inhibitory avoidance in male but not female mice

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 136, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 483-488

  Monleón, Santiago ^a   Urquiza, Adoración ^a   Carmen Arenas, M ^a   Vinader Caerols, Concepción ^a   Parra, Andrés ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Antidepressants; Fluoxetine; Inhibitory avoidance; Memory; Mice; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 0037112312     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0166-4328(02)00194-8     Document Type: Article

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