The brain reward circuitry in mood disorders

SJ Russo, EJ Nestler - Nature reviews neuroscience, 2013 - nature.com
Mood disorders are common and debilitating conditions characterized in part by profound
deficits in reward-related behavioural domains. A recent literature has identified important …

Dopaminylation of histone H3 in ventral tegmental area regulates cocaine seeking

AE Lepack, CT Werner, AF Stewart, SL Fulton, P Zhong… - Science, 2020 - science.org
Vulnerability to relapse during periods of attempted abstinence from cocaine use is
hypothesized to result from the rewiring of brain reward circuitries, particularly ventral …

Social defeat stress induces a depression-like phenotype in adolescent male c57BL/6 mice

SD Iñiguez, LM Riggs, SJ Nieto, G Dayrit, NN Zamora… - Stress, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Exposure to stress is highly correlated with the emergence of mood-related illnesses.
Because major depressive disorder often emerges in adolescence, we assessed the effects …

Vicarious social defeat stress induces depression-related outcomes in female mice

SD Iñiguez, FJ Flores-Ramirez, LM Riggs, JB Alipio… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Background Stress is a prevailing risk factor for mood-related illnesses, wherein women
represent the majority of those affected by major depression. Despite the growing literature …

Neurobiological sequelae of witnessing stressful events in adult mice

BL Warren, VF Vialou, SD Iñiguez, LF Alcantara… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: It is well known that exposure to severe stress increases the risk for
developing mood disorders. However, most chronic stress models in rodents involve at least …

The role of mTOR in depression and antidepressant responses

HM Abelaira, GZ Réus, MV Neotti, J Quevedo - Life sciences, 2014 - Elsevier
The aim of this study was to characterize the mTOR signaling cascade in depression and the
actions that antidepressant drugs have on this pathway. Herein, a literature review was …

Repeated ketamine exposure induces an enduring resilient phenotype in adolescent and adult rats

EM Parise, LF Alcantara, BL Warren, KN Wright… - Biological …, 2013 - Elsevier
Background Major depressive disorder afflicts up to 10% of adolescents. However, nearly
50% of those afflicted are considered nonresponsive to available treatments. Ketamine, a …

Branched-chain amino acids as new biomarkers of major depression-a novel neurobiology of mood disorder

A Baranyi, O Amouzadeh-Ghadikolai, D von Lewinski… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background The proteinogenic branched-chain amino acids (BCAAs) valine, leucine and
isoleucine might play an unrecognised crucial role in the development of depression …

Perillyl alcohol attenuates chronic restraint stress aggravated dextran sulfate sodium-induced ulcerative colitis by modulating TLR4/NF-κB and JAK2/STAT3 signaling …

ER Puppala, SL Aochenlar, PA Shantanu, S Ahmed… - Phytomedicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Background Ulcerative colitis (UC) is the most prevalent chronic inflammatory immune
bowel disease. The modernization of lifestyle accompanied by the stress to cope with the …

Effects of chronic fluoxetine treatment on anxiety-and depressive-like behaviors in adolescent rodents–systematic review and meta-analysis

J Kryst, I Majcher-Maślanka, A Chocyk - Pharmacological Reports, 2022 - Springer
Background Drugs prescribed for psychiatric disorders in adolescence should be studied
very extensively since they can affect developing and thus highly plastic brain differently …