Neurobiology of chronic mild stress: parallels to major depression

MN Hill, KGC Hellemans, P Verma, BB Gorzalka… - Neuroscience & …, 2012 - Elsevier
The chronic mild (or unpredictable/variable) stress (CMS) model was developed as an
animal model of depression more than 20 years ago. The foundation of this model was that …

Exploring the role of neuropeptides in depression and anxiety

T Rana, T Behl, A Sehgal, S Singh, N Sharma… - Progress in Neuro …, 2022 - Elsevier
Depression is one of the most prevalent forms of mental disorders and is the most common
cause of disability in the Western world. Besides, the harmful effects of stress-related mood …

Multi-target strategies for the improved treatment of depressive states: conceptual foundations and neuronal substrates, drug discovery and therapeutic application

MJ Millan - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2006 - Elsevier
Major depression is a debilitating and recurrent disorder with a substantial lifetime risk and a
high social cost. Depressed patients generally display co-morbid symptoms, and depression …

The neuropeptide Y (NPY)-ergic system is associated with behavioral resilience to stress exposure in an animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder

H Cohen, T Liu, N Kozlovsky, Z Kaplan… - …, 2012 - nature.com
Converging evidence implicates the regulatory neuropeptide Y (NPY) in anxiety-and
depression-related behaviors. The present study sought to assess whether there is an …

The role of substance P in stress and anxiety responses

K Ebner, N Singewald - Amino acids, 2006 - Springer
Substance P (SP) is one of the most abundant peptides in the central nervous system and
has been implicated in a variety of physiological and pathophysiological processes …

Neuropeptide and small transmitter coexistence: fundamental studies and relevance to mental illness

T Hökfelt, S Barde, ZQD Xu, E Kuteeva… - Frontiers in neural …, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Neuropeptides are auxiliary messenger molecules that always co-exist in nerve cells with
one or more small molecule (classic) neurotransmitters. Neuropeptides act both as …

Hippocampus: molecular, cellular, and circuit features in anxiety

HJ Shi, S Wang, XP Wang, RX Zhang, LJ Zhu - Neuroscience bulletin, 2023 - Springer
Anxiety disorders are currently a major psychiatric and social problem, the mechanisms of
which have been only partially elucidated. The hippocampus serves as a major target of …

Chronic stress reduces the number of GABAergic interneurons in the adult rat hippocampus, dorsal‐ventral and region‐specific differences

B Czéh, ZKK Varga, K Henningsen, GL Kovács… - …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Major depressive disorder is a common and complex mental disorder with unknown
etiology. GABAergic dysfunction is likely to contribute to the pathophysiology since disrupted …

[HTML][HTML] Metabolic profiling reveals disorder of amino acid metabolism in four brain regions from a rat model of chronic unpredictable mild stress

Y Ni, M Su, J Lin, X Wang, Y Qiu, A Zhao, T Chen… - FEBS letters, 2008 - Elsevier
Chronic stress is closely linked to clinical depression, which could be assessed by a chronic
unpredictable mild stress (CUMS) animal model. We present here a GC/MS-based …

The neuropeptide VGF produces antidepressant-like behavioral effects and enhances proliferation in the hippocampus

S Thakker-Varia, JJ Krol, J Nettleton… - Journal of …, 2007 - Soc Neuroscience
Brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) is upregulated in the hippocampus by
antidepressant treatments, and BDNF produces antidepressant-like effects in behavioral …