Altered brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in the ventral tegmental area, but not in the hippocampus, is essential for antidepressant-like effects of electroconvulsive therapy

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 74, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 305-312

  Taliaz, Dekel ^a,b   Nagaraj, Vini ^a   Haramati, Sharon ^a   Chen, Alon ^a   Zangen, Abraham ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

Author keywords

BDNF; depression; ECT; hippocampus; rat model; VTA

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ELECTRODE; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FLUID INTAKE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

BDNF; DEPRESSION; ECT; HIPPOCAMPUS; RAT MODEL; VTA;

ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 84880788192     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.07.025     Document Type: Article

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