Antidepressants induce regionally discrete, sex-dependent changes in brain's glutamate content

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 464, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 98-102

  Kokras, Nikolaos ^a   Antoniou, Katerina ^b   Polissidis, Alexia ^a   Papadopoulou Daifoti, Zeta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

Author keywords

Aspartate; Clomipramine; Female rats; Glutamate; Mirtazapine; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

ASPARTIC ACID; CLOMIPRAMINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MIRTAZAPINE;

AMINO ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GLUTAMIC ACID; MALE; RATS; SEX FACTORS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 69549098199     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.08.011     Document Type: Article

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