Regular exercise cures depression-like behavior via VEGF-Flk-1 signaling in chronically stressed mice

Neuroscience

Volumn 207, Issue , 2012, Pages 208-217

  Kiuchi, T ^a   Lee, H ^a   Mikami, T ^a  

^a NIPPON MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Angiogenesis; Depression; Exercise; Neurogenesis; VEGF

Indexed keywords

SU 1498; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN; VASCULOTROPIN INHIBITOR; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN BLOOD VESSEL; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; EXERCISE; EXERCISE INTENSITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULAR EXERCISE; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CINNAMATES; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXERCISE THERAPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; NEUROGENESIS; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UP-REGULATION; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2;

EID: 84862824404     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.01.023     Document Type: Article

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