Effects of brief pulse and ultrabrief pulse electroconvulsive stimulation on rodent brain and behaviour in the corticosterone model of depression

International Journal of Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1477-1486

  O'Donovan, Sinead ^a   Dalton, Victoria ^a   Harkin, Andrew ^a   McLoughlin, Declan M ^a  

^a TRINITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

Author keywords

corticosterone; electroconvulsive stimulation; Keywords Antidepressant; pulse width

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRIEF PULSE ELECTROCONVULSIVE STIMULATION; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; FORCED SWIM TEST; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SUPPLEMENTATION; TONIC CLONIC SEIZURE; ULTRABRIEF PULSE ELECTROCONVULSIVE STIMULATION; ADRENAL GLAND; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; EATING; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SWIMMING;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EATING; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SWIMMING;

EID: 84904861337     PISSN: 14611457     EISSN: 14695111     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1461145714000200     Document Type: Article

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