Chronic agomelatine treatment corrects behavioral, cellular, and biochemical abnormalities induced by prenatal stress in rats

Psychopharmacology

Volumn 217, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 301-313

  Morley Fletcher, Sara ^a   Mairesse, Jerome ^a   Soumier, Amelie ^b   Banasr, Mounira ^b   Fagioli, Francesca ^c   Gabriel, Cecilia ^d   Mocaer, Elisabeth ^d   Daszuta, Annie ^b   McEwen, Bruce ^e   Nicoletti, Ferdinando ^a,f,g   MacCari, Stefania ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c Azienda Sanitaria Locale   (Italy)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHES INTERNATIONALES SERVIER   (France)

^e ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^g IRCCS NEUROMED   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adult neurogenesis; Agomelatine; Fluoxetine; Metabotropic glutamate receptors; Phospho CREB; Prenatal stress; Ventral hippocampus

Indexed keywords

AGOMELATINE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; FLUOXETINE; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 2; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 3; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 5; BROXURIDINE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LONG TERM CARE; MAZE TEST; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; ANIMAL CELL; BINDING AFFINITY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG EFFICACY; EMOTION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MEMORY; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

EID: 84943014098     PISSN: 00333158     EISSN: 14322072     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00213-011-2280-x     Document Type: Article

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