Antidepressant Effect of Ketamine in Sub Anaesthetic Doses in Male albino mice

Journal of Clinical and Diagnostic Research

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Antony, Lourdu Jafrin ^a   Paruchuri, Venkata Naveen Kumar ^a   Ramanan, Ramchandar ^a  

^a Research Institute   (India)

Author keywords

Antidepressant; Forced swim test; Imipramine; Ketamine

Indexed keywords

IMIPRAMINE; KETAMINE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FORCED SWIM TEST; IMMOBILITY TIME; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; TIME; VIDEORECORDING;

EID: 84903289520     PISSN: 2249782X     EISSN: 0973709X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/9679.4445     Document Type: Article

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