Exacerbated loss of cell survival, neuropeptide Y-immunoreactive (IR) cells, and serotonin-IR fiber lengths in the dorsal hippocampus of the aged Flinders sensitive line "depressed" rat: Implications for the pathophysiology of depression?

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 84, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 1292-1302

  Husum, H ^a   Aznar, S ^b   Hoyer Hansen S ^b   Larsen, M Hald ^c   Mikkelsen, J D ^c   Moller A ^b   Mathe A A ^d   Wortwein G ^b  

^a H LUNDBECK A S   (Denmark)

^b Mental Health Services CPH   (Denmark)

^c NEUROSEARCH A S   (Denmark)

^d KAROLINSKA UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Sweden)

Author keywords

BrdU; Dentate gyrus; Plasticity; Stress

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SEROTONIN;

AGING; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES, ANTINEOPLASTIC; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL SURVIVAL; DEPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEROTONIN;

EID: 33750487468     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: 10974547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.21027     Document Type: Article

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