Antidepressants blunt the effects of inescapable stress on male mating behaviour and decrease corticotropin-releasing hormone mRNA expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of the Syrian hamster (Mesocricetus auratus)

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 16, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 628-636

  Cordner, A P ^a   Herwood, M B ^a   Helmreich, D L ^a   Parfitt, David B ^a  

^a MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Clomipramine; Coping; CRH; Foot shock; Sexual behaviour

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CLOMIPRAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; SUGAR; TESTOSTERONE; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BLOOD ANALYSIS; BRAIN REGION; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EJACULATION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; INHIBITION KINETICS; MALE; MATING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CLOMIPRAMINE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CRICETINAE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; ESCAPE REACTION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RNA, MESSENGER; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 3543049611     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2004.01214.x     Document Type: Article

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