Animal models of major depression: drawbacks and challenges

B Planchez, A Surget, C Belzung - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2019 - Springer
Major depression is a leading contributor to the global burden of disease. This situation is
mainly related to the chronicity and/or recurrence of the disorder, and to poor response to …

The neurobiology of depression and antidepressant action

P Willner, J Scheel-Krüger, C Belzung - Neuroscience & biobehavioral …, 2013 - Elsevier
We present a comprehensive overview of the neurobiology of unipolar major depression
and antidepressant drug action, integrating data from affective neuroscience, neuro-and …

Sex-specific transcriptional signatures in human depression

B Labonté, O Engmann, I Purushothaman, C Menard… - Nature medicine, 2017 - nature.com
Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a leading cause of disease burden worldwide. While the
incidence, symptoms and treatment of MDD all point toward major sex differences, the …

Chronic stress followed by social isolation promotes depressive-like behaviour, alters microglial and astrocyte biology and reduces hippocampal neurogenesis in …

A Du Preez, D Onorato, I Eiben, K Musaelyan… - Brain, behavior, and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Unpredictable chronic mild stress (UCMS) is one of the most commonly used, robust and
translatable models for studying the neurobiological basis of major depression. Although the …

Sex differences in nucleus accumbens transcriptome profiles associated with susceptibility versus resilience to subchronic variable stress

GE Hodes, ML Pfau, I Purushothaman… - Journal of …, 2015 - Soc Neuroscience
Depression and anxiety disorders are more prevalent in females, but the majority of
research in animal models, the first step in finding new treatments, has focused …

Animal models of depression: what can they teach us about the human disease?

M Becker, A Pinhasov, A Ornoy - Diagnostics, 2021 - mdpi.com
Depression is apparently the most common psychiatric disease among the mood disorders
affecting about 10% of the adult population. The etiology and pathogenesis of depression …

Novel drug developmental strategies for treatment‐resistant depression

É Borbély, M Simon, E Fuchs, O Wiborg… - British journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Major depressive disorder is a leading cause of disability worldwide. Because conventional
therapies are ineffective in many patients, novel strategies are needed to overcome …

Central and peripheral inflammation link metabolic syndrome and major depressive disorder

KL Chan, F Cathomas, SJ Russo - Physiology, 2019 - journals.physiology.org
Metabolic syndrome and major depression are two of the most common and debilitating
disorders worldwide, occurring with significant rates of comorbidity. Recent studies have …

Modeling anxiety using adult zebrafish: a conceptual review

A Stewart, S Gaikwad, E Kyzar, J Green, A Roth… - …, 2012 - Elsevier
Zebrafish (Danio rerio) are rapidly emerging as a useful animal model in neurobehavioral
research. Mounting evidence shows the suitability of zebrafish to model various aspects of …

Glyphosate based-herbicide exposure affects gut microbiota, anxiety and depression-like behaviors in mice

Y Aitbali, S Ba-M'hamed, N Elhidar, A Nafis… - Neurotoxicology and …, 2018 - Elsevier
Recently, a number of studies have demonstrated the profound relationship between gut
microbiota (GM) alterations and behavioral changes. Glyphosate-based herbicides (GBH) …