The effects of acute tryptophan depletion on affective behaviour and cognition in Brown Norway and Sprague Dawley rats

Journal of Psychopharmacology

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 605-614

  Jans, L A W ^a   Korte Bouws, G A H ^b   Korte, S M ^b   Blokland, A ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Acute tryptophan depletion; Anxiety; Depression; Memory; Rat strain; Serotonergic vulnerability; Serotonin; Tryptophan

Indexed keywords

SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN;

AMINO ACID DEFICIENCY; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DIETARY CARBOHYDRATES; DIETARY PROTEINS; FRONTAL LOBE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; RATS; RATS, INBRED BN; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEROTONIN; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING; TRYPTOPHAN;

EID: 77950427159     PISSN: 02698811     EISSN: 14617285     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0269881108099424     Document Type: Article

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