Ghrelin alleviates anxiety- and depression-like behaviors induced by chronic unpredictable mild stress in rodents

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 326, Issue , 2017, Pages 33-43

  Huang, Hui Jie ^a   Zhu, Xiao Cang ^a   Han, Qiu Qin ^a   Wang, Ya Lin ^a   Yue, Na ^a   Wang, Jing ^a   Yu, Rui ^a   Li, Bing ^b   Wu, Gen Cheng ^a   Liu, Qiong ^a,c   Yu, Jin ^a  

^a FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b JINSHAN HOSPITAL OF FUDAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Shanghai Key Laboratory of Medical Imaging Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention   (China)

Author keywords

CUMS; Depression; Depression like behaviors; Ghrelin; GHSR

Indexed keywords

CLOMIPRAMINE; ESCITALOPRAM; GHRELIN; GHRELIN RECEPTOR; HISTIDYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLALANYLTRYPTOPHYL DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLLYSINAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING HEXAPEPTIDE; OLIGOPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC UNPREDICTABLE STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DOSE RESPONSE; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FORCED SWIM TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; RAT; STOMACH; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY; UPREGULATION; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; C57BL MOUSE; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; GHRELIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; OLIGOPEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GHRELIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 85014813953     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2017.02.040     Document Type: Article

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