Lithium increases body weight of rats: Relation to thymolysis

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 155-158

  Levine, Seymour ^a   Saltzman, Arthur ^a  

^a NATHAN S KLINE INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Body weight gain; Lithium; Stress; Thymolysis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ABNORMALLY HIGH SUBSTRATE CONCENTRATION IN BLOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; INBRED STRAIN; INJECTION; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RELIABILITY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPLEEN WEIGHT; STRESS; THYMUS; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIMANIC AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; THYMUS GLAND;

EID: 29644442443     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2005.08.023     Document Type: Article

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