Antidepressants recruit new neurons to improve stress response regulation

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 16, Issue 12, 2011, Pages 1177-1188

  Surget, A ^a,b,c   Tanti, A ^a,b   Leonardo, E D ^d   Laugeray, A ^a,b   Rainer, Q ^a,b   Touma, C ^e   Palme, R ^f   Griebel, G ^g   Ibarguen Vargas, Y ^a,b,c   Hen, R ^d   Belzung, C ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOURS   (France)

^c NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^d Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

^g SANOFI   (France)

Author keywords

antidepressant; depression; hippocampal neurogenesis; hypothalamopituitary adrenal axis; immediate early gene; stress

Indexed keywords

4 (2 CHLORO 4 METHOXY 5 METHYLPHENYL) N [2 CYCLOPROPYL 1 (3 FLUORO 4 METHYLPHENYL)ETHYL] 5 METHYL N (2 PROPYNYL) 2 THIAZOLAMINE; CORTICOSTERONE; FLUOXETINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRESS; STRESS RESPONSE REGULATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CELL COUNT; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DEXAMETHASONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FLUOXETINE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMANS; HYDROCARBONS, HALOGENATED; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; NEUROGENESIS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL FUNCTION TESTS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THIAZINES;

EID: 81755172044     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2011.48     Document Type: Article

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