REVERSAL OF STRESS-INDUCED ANHEDONIA BY THE ATYPICAL ANTIDEPRESSANTS, FLUOXETINE AND MAPROTILINE
REVERSAL OF STRESS-INDUCED ANHEDONIA BY THE ATYPICAL ANTIDEPRESSANTS, FLUOXETINE AND MAPROTILINE
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DOI:
10.1007/bf02247719
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发表时间:
1992-12-01
影响因子:
3.4
通讯作者:
WILLNER, P
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作者:
MUSCAT, R;PAPP, M;WILLNER, P
Chronic exposure to mild unpredictable stress has previously been found to depress the consumption of palatable sweet solutions. In the present study this effect was reversed by chronic (9 weeks) treatment with the atypical antidepressants, fluoxetine and maprotiline (5 mg/kg/day), the non-antidepressant chlordiazepoxide was ineffective. Stressed animals were also subsensitive to food reward in the place conditioning procedure: however, fluoxetine and maprotiline treated animals showed normal place preference conditioning. Acute pretreatment with raclopride (100 mug/kg) selectively reversed the recovery of sucrose drinking in antidepressant-treated stressed animals. These results extend previous reports of the efficacy of tricyclic antidepressants in this paradigm, and support the hypothesis of a dopaminergic mechanism of antidepressant action.