Sex differences in animal models of depression and antidepressant response

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology

Volumn 106, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 226-233

  Dalla, Christina ^a   Pitychoutis, Pothitos M ^a   Kokras, Nikolaos ^a   Papadopoulou Daifoti, Zeta ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CLOMIPRAMINE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; IMIPRAMINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN RECEPTOR;

ANHEDONIA; CHRONIC MILD STRESS; CHRONIC STRESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODEL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FLINDERS SENSITIVE LINE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENETIC MODEL; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE INDUCED SICKNESS BEHAVIOR; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; IMMUNITY, INNATE; MALE; RATS; SEROTONIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77149123942     PISSN: 17427835     EISSN: 17427843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1742-7843.2009.00516.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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