Depression-like behavior and reduced plasma testosterone levels in the senescence-accelerated mouse

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 209, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 142-147

  Egashira, Nobuaki ^a,b   Koushi, Emi ^a   Okuno, Ryoko ^a   Shirakawa, Atsunori ^a   Mishima, Kenichi ^a   Iwasaki, Katsunori ^a   Oishi, Ryozo ^b   Fujiwara, Michihiro ^a  

^a FUKUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYUSHU UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Aging; Behavior; Dehydroepiandrosterone (DHEA); Depression; Senescence accelerated mouse (SAM); Testosterone

Indexed keywords

PRASTERONE; TESTOSTERONE;

AGING; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOTOR PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTAROD TEST; SENESCENCE ACCELERATED MOUSE; STARTLE REFLEX; TESTOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEHYDROEPIANDROSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; ROTAROD PERFORMANCE TEST; STARTLE REACTION; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 77249086528     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.01.030     Document Type: Article

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