Chronic corticosterone administration from adolescence through early adulthood attenuates depression-like behaviors in mice

Journal of Affective Disorders

Volumn 131, Issue 1-3, 2011, Pages 128-135

  Xu, Zhiwei ^a   Zhang, Youzhi ^b   Hou, Bing ^a   Gao, Yan ^a   Wu, Yonghong ^a   Zhang, Chenggang ^a  

^a BEIJING INSTITUTE OF RADIATION MEDICINE   (China)

^b BEIJING INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY AND TOXICOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescence and early adulthood; Corticosterone; Depression like behaviors; Hippocampal cell proliferation; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis; Mineralocorticoid receptor

Indexed keywords

BROXURIDINE; CORTICOSTERONE; DRINKING WATER; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; FORCED SWIM TEST; FUNCTION TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL SUSPENSION TEST;

AGING; ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID;

EID: 79955894552     PISSN: 01650327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jad.2010.11.005     Document Type: Article

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