Activation of GABA-A receptors during postnatal brain development increases anxiety- and depression-related behaviors in a time- and dose-dependent manner in adult mice

European Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 25, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 1260-1274

  Salari, Ali Akbar ^a,b   Bakhtiari, Amir ^c   Homberg, Judith R ^d  

^a TABRIZ UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TABRIZ   (Iran)

^c ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Bicuculline; Depression; Early life; HPA axis; Muscimol

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BICUCULLINE; CORTICOSTERONE; MUSCIMOL;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; DRUG MEGADOSE; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ELEVATED ZERO MAZE TEST; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; LIGHT-DARK TEST; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PERINATAL PERIOD; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TAIL SUSPENSION TEST; THIN LAYER CHROMATOGRAPHY; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; BRAIN; DOSE RESPONSE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; TIME FACTOR;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; BICUCULLINE; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MALE; MICE; MUSCIMOL; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84938748651     PISSN: 0924977X     EISSN: 18737862     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.euroneuro.2015.04.022     Document Type: Article

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