Antidepressant treatment with tianeptine reduces apoptosis in the hippocampal dentate gyrus and temporal cortex

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 8, 2004, Pages 789-796

  Lucassen, Paul J ^a,c   Fuchs, Eberhard ^b   Czéh, Boldizsár ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Depression; Glia; Hippocampus; Neuroplasticity; Stress; Tree shrew

Indexed keywords

TIANEPTINE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INSECTIVORE; MOLECULAR MODEL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; TEMPORAL CORTEX; VALIDATION PROCESS;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; APOPTOSIS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUORESCENT DYES; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; STILBAMIDINES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TEMPORAL LOBE; THIAZEPINES; TIME FACTORS; TUPAIIDAE;

EID: 1642558899     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2003.12.014     Document Type: Article

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