Mechanisms of depression: The role of neurogenesis

Drug Discovery Today: Disease Mechanisms

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 407-411

  Henn, Fritz ^a   Vollmayr, Barbara ^a   Sartorius, Alexander ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; HYDROCORTISONE; NEUROTROPHIN; NORADRENALIN; RESERPINE; SEROTONIN;

BLOOD PRESSURE REGULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; DEPRESSION; DRUG MECHANISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; MOOD; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; REVIEW; STRESS; SYNAPTOGENESIS;

EID: 21244457401     PISSN: 17406765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ddmec.2004.10.007     Document Type: Review

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