Lipopolysaccharide repeated challenge followed by chronic mild stress protocol introduces a combined model of depression in rats: Reversibility by imipramine and pentoxifylline

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 126, Issue , 2014, Pages 152-162

  Elgarf, Al Shaimaa A ^a   Aboul Fotouh, Sawsan ^a,b   Abd Alkhalek, Hadwa A ^b   El Tabbal, Mohamed ^b,c   Hassan, Ahmed N ^a,b   Kassim, Samar K ^b   Hammouda, Gehad A ^b   Farrag, Kawthar A ^b   Abdel Tawab, Ahmed M ^a,b  

^a Ain Shams University   (Egypt)

^b AIN SHAMS UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

^c OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Bacterial lipopolysaccharide; Chronic mild stress; Forced swimming test; Hippocampal TNF ; Indoleamine 2,3 dioxygenase enzyme; Kynurenine tryptophan ratio

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; IMIPRAMINE; KYNURENINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; TRYPTOPHAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR ALPHA; TRICYCLIC ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CHRONIC MILD STRESS PROTOCOL; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; FORCED SWIM TEST; GLIA CELL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PATHOGENESIS; PILOT STUDY; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION TEST; TRYPTOPHAN BRAIN LEVEL; WEIGHT CHANGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM;

ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS, TRICYCLIC; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMIPRAMINE; KYNURENINE; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; PENTOXIFYLLINE; RATS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRYPTOPHAN; TUMOR NECROSIS FACTOR-ALPHA;

EID: 84907991713     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: 18735177     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pbb.2014.09.014     Document Type: Article

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