Pharmacological inhibition of the lateral habenula improves depressive-like behavior in an animal model of treatment resistant depression

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 463-465

  Winter, C ^a,c   Vollmayr, B ^b   Djodari Irani, A ^c   Klein, J ^c   Sartorius, A ^b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c CHARITÉ UNIVERSITÄTSMEDIZIN BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

CLH; Depression; Lateral habenula; Learned helplessness; LHb; Treatment resistance

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR STIMULATING AGENT; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG TARGETING; GENETIC MODEL; HABENULA; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL BLOCKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STEREOTACTIC TREATMENT; TREATMENT RESISTANT DEPRESSION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GABA-A RECEPTOR AGONISTS; HABENULA; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; MUSCIMOL; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 78149414084     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.07.034     Document Type: Article

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