Immobility in the forced swim test is adaptive and does not reflect depression

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 389-391

  Molendijk, Marc L ^a   de Kloet, E Ronald ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Depression; Forced swim test; Glucocorticoids; Mouse; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ACUTE STRESS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DRUG EFFECT; FORCED SWIM TEST; GENETIC MANIPULATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILITY; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SURVIVAL RATE; WATER IMMERSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DISEASE MODEL; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 84947434993     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.08.028     Document Type: Note

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