Reduced Expression of GABA Transporter GAT3 in Helpless Rats, an Animal Model of Depression

Neurochemical Research

Volumn 34, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1584-1593

  Zink, M ^a   Vollmayr, B ^a   Gebicke Haerter, P J ^a   Henn, F A ^b  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

^b BROOKHAVEN NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; Behaviour; Depression; GABA; Glia; Helplessness; Transporter

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID CARRIER; GABA TRANSPORTER PROTEIN GAT1; GABA TRANSPORTER PROTEIN GAT3; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VESICULAR INHIBITORY AMINO ACID TRANSPORTER;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; DOWN REGULATION; FOOTSHOCK; GENE EXPRESSION; HABENULA; HELPLESSNESS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MARKER GENE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OCCIPITAL CORTEX; PARIETAL LOBE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; THALAMUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSION; DOWN-REGULATION; GABA PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 68349157126     PISSN: 03643190     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11064-009-9947-2     Document Type: Article

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