Prevention of chronic stress-induced depression-like behavior by inducible nitric oxide inhibitor

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 433, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 59-64

  Wang, Dan ^a   An, Shu Cheng ^a   Zhang, Xia ^a,b  

^a SHAANXI NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Depression; Forced swimming test; Hippocampus; Inducible nitric oxide synthase

Indexed keywords

AMINOGUANIDINE; INDUCIBLE NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REDUCTION; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; APPETITE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GROOMING; GUANIDINES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NITRIC OXIDE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE II; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 39149100296     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2007.12.041     Document Type: Article

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