Ovarian hormones, but not fluoxetine, impart resilience within a chronic unpredictable stress model in middle-aged female rats

Neuropharmacology

Volumn 107, Issue , 2016, Pages 278-293

  Mahmoud, Rand ^a   Wainwright, Steven R ^a   Chaiton, Jessica A ^a   Lieblich, Stephanie E ^a   Galea, Liisa A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Antidepressant efficacy; Chronic unpredictable stress; Depressive like behavior; Long term ovariectomy; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; FLUOXETINE; HORMONE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE PROTEIN; OVARIAN HORMONE; PROTEIN IBA 1; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ANTIDEPRESSANT AGENT; CORTICOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANHEDONIA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BRAIN REGION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; ESTRADIOL BLOOD LEVEL; FORCED SWIM TEST; HORMONE ACTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LATENT PERIOD; MENTAL STRESS; MICROGLIA; MIDDLE AGED; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIALYLATION; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; ADVERSE EFFECTS; AGE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG THERAPY; FEMALE; METABOLISM; OVARY; PSYCHOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TRENDS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANTIDEPRESSIVE AGENTS; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84962668615     PISSN: 00283908     EISSN: 18737064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropharm.2016.01.033     Document Type: Article

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