Deltamethrin, a pyrethroid insecticide, could be a potential antidepressant agent

Medical Hypotheses

Volumn 66, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 605-608

  Tsai, Shih Jen ^a,b  

^a TAIPEI VETERANS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL YANG MING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DELTAMETHRIN; INSECTICIDE; MONOAMINE OXIDASE INHIBITOR; NORADRENALIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ACUTE TOXICITY; ARTICLE; AUTISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG EFFICACY; EPILEPSY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INDUCTION; HUMAN; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MANIA; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUICIDAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CLINICAL TRIALS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HUMANS; INSECTICIDES; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MODELS, THEORETICAL; NITRILES; PYRETHRINS;

ANIMALIA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 30344480775     PISSN: 03069877     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2005.10.011     Document Type: Article

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