Imbalance of leptin pathway and hypothalamus synaptic plasticity markers are associated with stress-induced depression in rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 249, Issue , 2013, Pages 38-43

  Ge, Jin Fang ^a,b   Qi, Cong Cong ^b   Zhou, Jiang Ning ^b  

^a ANHUI MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b University of Science and Technology of China   (China)

Author keywords

Depression; Leptin; Rat; Sucrose preference test; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; LEPTIN; LEPTIN RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SYNAPSIN I; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LABORATORY TEST; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; TAIL SUSPENSION TEST;

ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; LEPTIN; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, LEPTIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPSINS; SYNAPTOTAGMIN I;

EID: 84877798904     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.04.020     Document Type: Article

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