Acute reversible inactivation of the ventral medial prefrontal cortex induces antidepressant-like effects in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 214, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 437-442

  Scopinho, America Augusto ^a   Scopinho, Michele ^a   Lisboa, Sabrina Francesca ^a   Correa, Fernando Morgan de Aguiar ^a   Guimarães, Francisco Silveira ^a   Joca, Sâmia Regiane Lourenço ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Behavior; Behavioral despair; Cobalt chloride; Forced swimming; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

COBALT CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; IMMOBILIZATION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; COBALT; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; MALE; MICROINJECTIONS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SWIMMING; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 77955278615     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.06.018     Document Type: Article

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