Direct retino-raphe projection alters serotonergic tone and affective behavior

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1163-1175

  Ren, Chaoran ^a,b   Luan, Liju ^a,b   Wui Man Lau, Benson ^c,d,e   Huang, Xin ^a,b   Yang, Jian ^c,d,e   Zhou, Yuan ^a,b   Wu, Xihong ^b   Gao, Jie ^a,b   Pickard, Gary E ^f,g   So, Kwok Fai ^c,d,e   Pu, Mingliang ^a,b  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^e JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

affective visual information; depression; dorsal raphe nucleus; retinal ganglion cell; SSRI

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; IMMUNOTOXIN; MELANOPSIN; SEROTONIN; TETRODOTOXIN;

AFFECT; AFTERIMAGE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; GERBIL; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PHOTORECEPTOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RETINA GANGLION CELL;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AFFECT; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DARKNESS; FLUOXETINE; GERBILLINAE; IMIPRAMINE; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RETINAL GANGLION CELLS; SEROTONIN;

EID: 84878563273     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.35     Document Type: Article

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