Estrogens participate in the antidepressant-like effect of desipramine and fluoxetine in male rats

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 88, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 332-340

  Martínez Mota, Lucía ^a   Cruz Martínez, José Juan ^a   Márquez Baltazar, Sergio ^a   Fernández Guasti, Alonso ^b  

^a INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

^b DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

17 Estradiol; Antidepressants; Aromatase inhibition; Desipramine; Estrogens; Fluoxetine; Forced swimming test; Male rats

Indexed keywords

DESIPRAMINE; ESTRADIOL; FLUOXETINE; FORMESTANE;

ARTICLE; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG ANTAGONISM; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MECHANISM; DRUG POTENTIATION; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANDROSTENEDIONE; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; AROMATASE INHIBITORS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DESIPRAMINE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; RATS; SWIMMING; TESTOSTERONE;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 36248967586     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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