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DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOBIOLOGY
Volume 41, Issue 1, Pages 50-57Publisher
JOHN WILEY & SONS INC
DOI: 10.1002/dev.10055
Keywords
accumbens; activity; amygdala; anxiety; clomipramine; depression; gender; laterality; serotonin; sex
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- NIMH NIH HHS [R01 MH 43474] Funding Source: Medline
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Postnatal treatment between 8 to 21 days of age with clomipramine (15 mg/kg, twice daily) produces an animal model that has many of the behavioral hallmarks of depression. In this study, we investigated the enduring behavioral and neurochemical effects of this early, treatment in adult animals. Locomotor actitity was increased in cloinipramine-treated males, but not females, relative to vehicle-treated subjects. Increases in anxiety-like behavior in the elevated phis maze also were observed in clomipramine-exposed adults, but no sex differences were detected. Clomipramine-treated animals had shifts in the laterality of monoamines in limbic regions with lower serotonin levels on the right side while vehicle-treated animals had lower serotonin on the left side. The lateralization of dopamine content demonstrated the same pattern. This decline in monoaminergic content is consistent with clinical studies demonstrating decrements in serotonin as well as alterations in the lateralization of function in individuals with major depressive order. (C) 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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