Increased arachidonic acid concentration in the brain of Flinders Sensitive Line rats, an animal model of depression

Journal of Lipid Research

Volumn 46, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1093-1096

  Green, Pnina ^a   Gispan Herman, Iris ^b   Yadid, Gal ^b  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Depression; Docosahexaenoic acid; Eicosapentaenoic acid; n 3 polyunsaturated fatty acids; n 6 polyunsaturated fatty acids

Indexed keywords

ARACHIDONIC ACID; OMEGA 3 FATTY ACID; OMEGA 6 FATTY ACID; UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIPID COMPOSITION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RAT STRAIN; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; DISEASE MODEL; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ARACHIDONIC ACID; BRAIN; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; HYPOTHALAMUS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 24944468317     PISSN: 00222275     EISSN: 15397262     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1194/jlr.C500003-JLR200     Document Type: Article

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