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Título del libro: Herbal Medicine In Depression: Traditional Medicine To Innovative Drug Delivery
Título del capítulo: Animal models of depression

Autores UNAM:
MARIA EVA GONZALEZ TRUJANO; JUAN MANUEL GALLARDO GAONA; SANDRA ADELA OROZCO SUAREZ;
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Año de publicación:
2016
Palabras clave:

Animal models; Behavioral testing; Depression; Stress


Resumen:

Stress is a concept related to biological responses produced in all living organisms when facing environmental changes. These biological responses allow them to adapt. Chronic stress is a major risk factor in the development of several chronic diseases that has a high social and economic impact in many countries. Within these diseases is depression. Through a better understanding of the neurobiology of stress and depressive episodes, better preventative therapies and antidepressants with fewer side effects may be developed. Animal models of chronic stress have provided very important information through the pathophysiology of depression-associated behaviors that are similar to the behavior of depressed patients. This chapter reviews several depression assays involving acute stress (e.g., forced swim test), models consisting of prolonged physical or social stress (e.g., social defeat), models of secondary depression, genetic models, and experiments designed to elucidate the mechanisms of antidepressant action. These paradigms are critically evaluated in relation to the disease, validity and replicability, the molecular insights that they, and their capacity to offer the next generation of therapeutics for depression. © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016.


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