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Behavioural despair in rats: a new model sensitive to antidepressant treatments.

Roger D. Porsolt, +3 more
- 15 Feb 1978 - 
- Vol. 47, Iss: 4, pp 379-391
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Positive findings with atypical antidepressant drugs such as iprindole and mianserin suggest that the method may be capable of discovering new antidepressants hitherto undetectable with classical pharmacological tests.
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This article is published in European Journal of Pharmacology.The article was published on 1978-02-15. It has received 3030 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Mianserin & Iprindole.

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Potential anxiolytic and antidepressant effects of the selective 5-HT7 receptor antagonist SB 269970 after intrahippocampal administration to rats.

TL;DR: The obtained results indicate that the hippocampus is one of the neuroanatomical structures involved in the potential anxiolytic and, in particular, antidepressant activity of SB 269970.
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Early life immune challenge--effects on behavioural indices of adult rat fear and anxiety.

TL;DR: Male Sprague-Dawley rats were administered a single injection of the bacterial endotoxin lipopolysaccharide at 14 days old and were compared, when they reached adulthood, with neonatally saline-treated controls in several behavioural tests of unconditioned fear and anxiety, indicating an effect of the neonatal immune challenge on behaviours relating to anxiety in the adult.
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A possible mechanism for anxiolytic and antidepressant effects of alpha- and beta-amyrin from Protium heptaphyllum (Aubl.) March.

TL;DR: Sedative and anxiolytic effects of AMY that might involve an action on benzodiazepine-type receptors, and also an antidepressant effect where noradrenergic mechanisms will probably play a role are evidenced.
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Influences of Ovariectomy and Continuous Replacement of 17β-Estradiol on the Tail Skin Temperature and Behavior in the Forced Swimming Test in Rats

TL;DR: The effect of ovariectomy and continuous subcutaneous replacement of 17beta-estradiol was examined in female Wistar rats and the forced swimming test showed significantly prolonged immobility time in comparison with sham-ovariectomized rats 14 days after Ovariectomy.
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TV3326, a novel neuroprotective drug with cholinesterase and monoamine oxidase inhibitory activities for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

TL;DR: TV3326 and TV3279 protect against ischemia-induced cytotoxicity in PC12 cells and reduce the oedema, deficits in motor function and memory after closed head injury in mice and shows selectivity for brain MAO, even after 2 months of daily administration, with little or no effect on the enzyme in the intestinal tract and liver.
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Helplessness: On Depression, Development, and Death

TL;DR: In this article, the authors proposed a learned-helplessness model of depression and developed a set of guidelines for depression and learned helplessness, including depression, anxiety and unpredictability, childhood failure, sudden psychosomatic death controllability.
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Depression: a new animal model sensitive to antidepressant treatments

R D Porsolt, +2 more
- 21 Apr 1977 - 
TL;DR: Results presented below indicate that immobility is reduced by different treatments known to be therapeutic in depression including three drugs, iprindole, mianserin and viloxazine which although clinically active show little or no ‘antidepressant’ activity in the usual animal tests.
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The making and breaking of affectional bonds. I. Aetiology and psychopathology in the light of attachment theory. An expanded version of the Fiftieth Maudsley Lecture, delivered before the Royal College of Psychiatrists, 19 November 1976.

TL;DR: Though attachment theory incorporates much psychoanalytic thinking, many of its principles derive from ethology, cognitive psychology and control theory, and it conforms to the ordinary criteria of a scientific discipline.
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Failure to Escape Traumatic Shock

TL;DR: Dogs which had first learned to panel press in a harness in order to escape shock subsequently showed normal acquisition of escape/ avoidance behavior in a shuttle box, supporting a learned "helplessness" explanation of interference with escape responding.
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Molecular geometry of inhibitors of the uptake of catecholamines and serotonin in synaptosomal preparations of rat brain.

TL;DR: The tubular configuration of EXP-561 may be the most appropriate for blocking serotonin uptake and the conformation defined by the combination resulting from superimposition of the CP-24-441 and desipramine structures is apparently optimal for blocking norepinephrine uptake.
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