Modeling depression with transgenic mice: The neurotrophin hypothesis revisited

Clinical Neuroscience Research

Volumn 3, Issue 4-5, 2003, Pages 263-269

  Urani, Alexandre ^a   Chourbaji, Sabine ^a   Henn, Fritz A ^a   Gass, Peter ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal model; Antidepressant; BDNF; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; cAMP response element binding protein; CREB; Depression; Knockout; Mice; Mutant; Neurotrophin; Stress; Transgenic; Tyrosine receptor kinase B (TrkB)

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NEUROTROPHIN; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL MODEL; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; DEPRESSION; DRUG RESPONSE; HYPOTHESIS; MOUSE; MOUSE STRAIN; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

EID: 0344442811     PISSN: 15662772     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-2772(03)00088-4     Document Type: Review

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