Influence of the brain sexual differentiation process on despair and antidepressant-like effect of fluoxetine in the rat forced swim test

Neuroscience

Volumn 261, Issue , 2014, Pages 11-22

  Gomez M L ^a   Martinez Mota L ^b   Estrada Camarena, E ^b   Fernandez Guasti A ^a  

^a DEPARTAMENTO DE FÍSICA   (Mexico)

^b INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PSIQUIATRÍA RAMÓN DE LA FUENTE MUÑIZ   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Fluoxetine; Forced swim test; Neonatally castrated males; Neonatally masculinized females; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

FLUOXETINE; STEROID HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CASTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG RESPONSE; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; GONADECTOMY; IMMOBILITY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEX DIFFERENTIATION;

FLUOXETINE; FORCED SWIM TEST; NEONATALLY CASTRATED MALES; NEONATALLY MASCULINIZED FEMALES; SEX DIFFERENCES;

AGE FACTORS; ANDROGENS; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, SECOND-GENERATION; BRAIN; DEPRESSION; ESTRUS; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; ORCHIECTOMY; OVARIECTOMY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SWIMMING; TESTOSTERONE;

EID: 84892516636     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2013.12.035     Document Type: Article

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