A comparison between chronic exercise training and desipramine as treatments for the depression-like behavior of early-life maternal deprivation rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 480, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 201-205

  Huang, Tung Yi ^a   Lin, Chih Hung ^b  

^a NATIONAL CHENG KUNG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b CHUNG HWA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Desipramine; Exercise; Forced swimming test; Light dark box test; Maternal deprivation; Short time treadmill test

Indexed keywords

DESIPRAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROL GROUP; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ENDURANCE TRAINING; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOTIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RUNNING; SWIMMING; TREADMILL EXERCISE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DESIPRAMINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXERCISE TEST; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77954951521     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2010.06.037     Document Type: Article

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