INFLUENCE OF OVARIECTOMY, ESTRADIOL AND PROGESTERONE ON THE BEHAVIOR OF MICE IN AN EXPERIMENTAL-MODEL OF DEPRESSION
INFLUENCE OF OVARIECTOMY, ESTRADIOL AND PROGESTERONE ON THE BEHAVIOR OF MICE IN AN EXPERIMENTAL-MODEL OF DEPRESSION
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DOI:
10.1016/0031-9384(89)90238-2
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发表时间:
1989-05-01
影响因子:
2.9
通讯作者:
BERTOLINI, A
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作者:
BERNARDI, M;VERGONI, AV;BERTOLINI, A
In the tail suspension test (an animal model of depression) the duration of immobility during the 6 min of observation was 56.84 .+-. 6.54 sec in sham-ovariectomized mice and 113.11 .+-. 7.86 sec 30-32 days after ovariectomy. Estradiol (10, 100 or 1000 .mu.g/kg) and progesterone (50, 1000 or 10,000 .mu.g/kg), subcutaneously injected daily 4 times before the test, restored the duration of immobility in ovariectomized mice to normal, while having no effect on sham-operated animals. On the other hand, desipramine (20 mg/kg IP 1 hr before testing) significantly reduced the duration of immobility both in ovariectomized and in sham-operated mice. These data indicate that ovarian sex hormones, while having no "antidepressant", desipramine-like, effect on the behavior of intact adult female mice, have such an effect in ovariectomized mice, and enable the animal to cope in a "normal" way with adverse environmental situations.