Cognitive disorders and neurogenesis deficits in Huntington's disease mice are rescued by fluoxetine

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 22, Issue 8, 2005, Pages 2081-2088

  Grote, Helen E ^a,b   Bull, Natalie D ^c   Howard, Monique L ^a   Van Dellen, Anton ^b   Blakemore, Colin ^b   Bartlett, Perry F ^c   Hannan, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Depression; Hippocampus; Neurodegenerative; Serotonin reuptake inhibitor

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG MECHANISM; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SYMPTOM; WILD TYPE;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELLS, CULTURED; COGNITION DISORDERS; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FLUOXETINE; HUMANS; HUNTINGTON DISEASE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; NUCLEAR PROTEINS; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; TRINUCLEOTIDE REPEAT EXPANSION;

EID: 27644524469     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2005.04365.x     Document Type: Article

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