The mouse forced swim test

Journal of Visualized Experiments

Volumn , Issue 58, 2011, Pages

  Can, Adem ^a   Dao, David T ^b   Arad, Michal ^a   Terrillion, Chantelle E ^a   Piantadosi, Sean C ^a   Gould, Todd D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TULANE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; Antidepressant; Behavioral analysis; Depression; Forced swimming test; FST; Issue 58; Mood disorder; Mood stabilizer; Neurobiology; Neuroscience

Indexed keywords

EID: 83455247056     PISSN: 1940087X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3791/3638     Document Type: Article

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