Altered Brain Activation Pattern Associated With Drug-Induced Attenuation of Enhanced Depression-Like Behavior in Rats Bred for High Anxiety

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 61, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 782-796

  Muigg, Patrik ^a   Hoelzl, Ulrike ^a   Palfrader, Klara ^a   Neumann, Inga ^c   Wigger, Alexandra ^b   Landgraf, Rainer ^b   Singewald, Nicolas ^a  

^a INNSBRUCK MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; c Fos mapping; forced swim; HAB; HPA axis; paroxetine; stress coping

Indexed keywords

DRINKING WATER; PAROXETINE; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; LIMBIC CORTEX; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RHOMBENCEPHALON; STRIA TERMINALIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; ANXIETY; BRAIN; DEPRESSION; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MALE; PAROXETINE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33847283932     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.08.035     Document Type: Article

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