Stress-induced anhedonia in mice is associated with deficits in forced swimming and exploration

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 29, Issue 11, 2004, Pages 2007-2017

  Strekalova, Tatyana ^a   Spanagel, Rainer ^a   Bartsch, Dusan ^a   Henn, Fritz A ^a,b   Gass, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anhedonia; Chronic stress; Depression model; Forced swimming; Mouse; Sucrose preference

Indexed keywords

SUCROSE;

ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DRINKING BEHAVIOR; FLUID INTAKE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REARING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; RATS; STRESS; SWIMMING;

EID: 8444223161     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/sj.npp.1300532     Document Type: Article

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