Comparison of ΔFosB immunoreactivity induced by vagal nerve stimulation with that caused by pharmacologically diverse antidepressants

Journal of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics

Volumn 341, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 317-325

  Furmaga, Havan ^a   Sadhu, Mohona ^b   Frazer, Alan ^a,c  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c SOUTH TEXAS VETERANS HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; DESIPRAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN; SERTRALINE; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR DELTA FOSB;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL LABELING; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHEMICAL LABELING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DRUG EFFECT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCUS CERULEUS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MOOD; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; THERAPY EFFECT; TREATMENT DURATION; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; BRAIN; COGNITION; DESIPRAMINE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; SEROTONIN; SERTRALINE; VAGUS NERVE; VAGUS NERVE STIMULATION;

EID: 84860004427     PISSN: 00223565     EISSN: 15210103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.111.188953     Document Type: Article

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