Antidepressant and anxiolytic-like effects in mice lacking the group III metabotropic glutamate receptor mGluR7

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 11, 2003, Pages 2409-2417

  Cryan, John F ^a   Kelly, Peter H ^a   Neijt, Hans C ^a   Sansig, Gilles ^a   Flor, Peter J ^a   Van Der Putten, Herman ^a  

^a NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 7; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVERSIVE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE DELETION; HYPERTHERMIA; LOCOMOTION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, METABOTROPIC GLUTAMATE; STRESS;

EID: 0038391169     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02667.x     Document Type: Article

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