Prior cold water swim stress alters immobility in the forced swim test and associated activation of serotonergic neurons in the rat dorsal raphe nucleus

Neuroscience

Volumn 253, Issue , 2013, Pages 221-234

  Drugan, R C ^a   Hibl, P T ^b   Kelly, K J ^b   Dady, K F ^b   Hale, M W ^c   Lowry, C A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Core body temperature; Depression; Forced swim test; Raphe; Serotonin; Swim stress

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; COLD EXPOSURE; COLD STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORE TEMPERATURE; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HYPOTHERMIA; IMMOBILITY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; TELEMETRY; TEMPERATURE ACCLIMATIZATION;

5-HT; 5-HYDROXYTRYPTAMINE, SEROTONIN; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANOVA; CORE BODY TEMPERATURE; CORE BODY TEMPERATURE (°C); DEPRESSION; DH(2)O; DISTILLED H(2)O; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS, DORSAL PART; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS, INTERFASCICULAR PART; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS, VENTROLATERAL PART/VENTROLATERAL PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; DR; DRD; DRI; DRVL/VLPAG; FORCED SWIM TEST; FST; H(2)O(2); HC; HOME CAGE; HYDROGEN PEROXIDE; IMMUNOREACTIVE; IR; LEAST SIGNIFICANT DIFFERENCE; LSD; NAN(3); PBS; PBS CONTAINING 0.1% TRITON X-100; PBST; PHOSPHATE-BUFFERED SALINE; RAPHE; SEROTONIN; SODIUM AZIDE; SS; SWIM STRESS; T(B); TPH; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; CELL COUNT; COLD TEMPERATURE; DESIPRAMINE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; MALE; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; TELEMETRY; TIME FACTORS; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 84884573033     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.08.038     Document Type: Article

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