Revisiting the validity of the mouse forced swim test: Systematic review and meta-analysis of the effects of prototypic antidepressants

NZ Kara, Y Stukalin, H Einat - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2018 - Elsevier
One problem area regarding animal models for affective disorders is unclear reproducibility,
including external validity or generalizability. One way to evaluate external validity is with …

Leading compounds for the validation of animal models of psychopathology

V Micale, J Kucerova, A Sulcova - Cell and Tissue Research, 2013 - Springer
Modelling of complex psychiatric disorders, eg, depression and schizophrenia, in animals is
a major challenge, since they are characterized by certain disturbances in functions that are …

[HTML][HTML] Role of GABAergic system in the comorbidity of pain and depression

S Yang, B Zhang, D Wang, S Hu, W Wang, C Liu… - Brain Research …, 2023 - Elsevier
Patients with chronic pain often suffer with depressive symptoms, and these two conditions
can be aggravated by each other over time, leading to an increase in symptom intensity and …

Substituent effects on the basicity (p K a) of aryl guanidines and 2-(arylimino) imidazolidines: correlations of pH-metric and UV-metric values with predictions from gas …

C Dardonville, BA Caine, MN de la Fuente… - New Journal of …, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
The dissociation constants of two related series of 2-(arylimino) imidazolidine and aryl
guanidine α2-adrenoceptor antagonists (35 compounds in total) were measured by …

Thiophene/thiazole-benzene replacement on guanidine derivatives targeting α2-Adrenoceptors

A Flood, C Trujillo, G Sanchez-Sanz, B Kelly… - European journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
Searching for improved antagonists of α 2-adrenoceptors, a thorough theoretical study
comparing the aromaticity of phenyl-, pyridinyl-, thiophenyl-and thiazolylguanidinium …

Mirtazapine attenuates anxiety-and depression-like behaviors in rats during cocaine withdrawal

S Barbosa Méndez… - Journal of …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: Anxiety and depression, key symptoms of the cocaine withdrawal syndrome in
human addicts, are considered the main factors that precipitate relapse in chronic cocaine …

α2-Adrenoceptor Antagonists: Synthesis, Pharmacological Evaluation, and Molecular Modeling Investigation of Pyridinoguanidine, Pyridino-2-aminoimidazoline and …

B Kelly, M McMullan, C Muguruza… - Journal of Medicinal …, 2015 - ACS Publications
We have previously identified phenylguanidine and phenyl-2-aminoimidazoline compounds
as high affinity ligands with conflicting functional activity at the α2-adrenoceptor, a G-protein …

Central immune alterations in passive strategy following chronic defeat stress

PT Joana, A Amaia, A Arantza, B Garikoitz… - Behavioural brain …, 2016 - Elsevier
The relationship between stress, mood disorders and immune disorders is known, but what
remains to be resolved is why certain individuals are more susceptible than others to suffer …

Adjunctive brexpiprazole as a novel effective strategy for treating major depressive disorder: a systematic review and meta-analysis

S Yoon, SW Jeon, YH Ko, AA Patkar… - Journal of Clinical …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Purpose/Background Brexpiprazole was approved for adjunctive treatment of major
depressive disorder (MDD) in 2015. Because only a small number of randomized controlled …

Antidepressants with different mechanisms of action show different chronopharmacological profiles in the tail suspension test in mice

H Kawai, R Iwadate, T Ishibashi, N Kudo… - Chronobiology …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
The circadian system regulates sleep/wake cycles, metabolism, mood, and other functions. It
also influences medication efficacy. In this study, we studied the chronopharmacological …