Overcoming resistance to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors: targeting serotonin, serotonin-1A receptors and adult neuroplasticity

F Vahid-Ansari, M Zhang, A Zahrai… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is the most prevalent mental illness contributing to global
disease burden. Selective serotonin (5-HT) reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) are the first-line …

Rat dams exposed repeatedly to a daily brief separation from the pups exhibit increased maternal behavior, decreased anxiety and altered levels of receptors for …

A Stamatakis, T Kalpachidou, A Raftogianni… - …, 2015 - Elsevier
In the present study we investigated the neurobiological mechanisms underlying expression
of maternal behavior. Increased maternal behavior was experimentally induced by a brief 15 …

Repeated systemic treatment with rapamycin affects behavior and amygdala protein expression in rats

M Hadamitzky, A Herring, J Kirchhof… - International Journal …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Background Clinical data indicate that therapy with small-molecule immunosuppressive
drugs is frequently accompanied by an incidence rate of neuropsychiatric symptoms. In the …

Anxiolytic effect of fatty acids and terpenes fraction from Aloysia triphylla: Serotoninergic, GABAergic and glutamatergic implications

E Jiménez-Ferrer, MA Santillán-Urquiza… - Biomedicine & …, 2017 - Elsevier
Aloysia triphylla (Verbenaceae) is an aromatic medicinal plant, and it is used for the
treatment of “nervous” problems as,“sadness” and “nervousness”. While, there are no …

Effects of acute or repeated paroxetine and fluoxetine treatment on affective behavior in male and female adolescent rats

LR Amodeo, VY Greenfield, DE Humphrey… - …, 2015 - Springer
Rationale The SSRI antidepressant fluoxetine is one of the few drugs that is effective at
treating depression in adolescent humans. In contrast, the SSRI paroxetine has limited …

Withdrawal from brief repeated alcohol treatment in adolescent and adult male and female rats

W Fleming, Q Jones, U Chandra, A Saini… - Alcoholism: clinical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Background Early initiation of alcohol drinking has been associated with increased risk of
alcohol dependence in adulthood. Although negative affect mediated in part by corticotropin …

Brief social isolation in the adolescent Wistar-Kyoto rat model of endogenous depression alters corticosterone and regional monoamine concentrations

RA Shetty, M Sadananda - Neurochemical research, 2017 - Springer
Abstract The Wistar-Kyoto rat (WKY) model has been suggested as a model of adult and
adolescent depression though face, predictive and construct validities of the model to …

[HTML][HTML] 5-HT1A receptor-mediated activation of neuroendocrine responses and multiple protein kinase pathways in the peripubertal rat hypothalamus

ML Petrunich-Rutherford, F Garcia, G Battaglia - Neuropharmacology, 2018 - Elsevier
Increasing evidence suggests that multiple factors can produce effects on the immature
brain that are distinct and more long-lasting than those produced in adults. The …

A comparison of the anxiolytic and hypnotic effects of Origanum majorana essential oil and alprazolam in male mice

N Manouchehri, S Abbasi-Maleki… - Herbal Medicines Journal …, 2019 - hmj.lums.ac.ir
Background and Aim: Previous studies have reported many pharmacological properties for
Origanum majorana, including anticonvulsant, analgesic, sedative, and antidepressant-like …

Contrasting regional Fos expression in adolescent and young adult rats following acute administration of the antidepressant paroxetine

EA Karanges, L Ramos, B Dampney, AS Suraev… - Brain Research …, 2016 - Elsevier
Adolescents and adults may respond differently to antidepressants, with poorer efficacy and
greater probability of adverse effects in adolescents. The mechanisms underlying this …