PET imaging of animal models with depressive-like phenotypes

DA Vazquez-Matias, EFJ de Vries… - European Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Major depressive disorder is a growing and poorly understood pathology. Due to technical
and ethical limitations, a significant proportion of the research on depressive disorders …

Effects of ketamine on metabolic parameters in depressive disorders: A systematic review

S Wong, GH Le, R Mansur, JD Rosenblat… - Journal of Affective …, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract Background Persons with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), notably treatment-
resistant depression (TRD), are differentially affected by type 2 diabetes mellitus and …

Antidepressant, anxiolytic and procognitive effects of subacute and chronic ketamine in the chronic mild stress model of depression

M Papp, P Gruca, M Lason-Tyburkiewicz… - Behavioural …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Ketamine is the prototype of a new generation of antidepressant drugs, which is reported in
clinical studies to be effective in treatment-resistant patients, with an effect that appears …

Beneficial effects of the calcium channel blocker CTK 01512-2 in a mouse model of multiple sclerosis

RBM Silva, S Greggio, GT Venturin, JC da Costa… - Molecular …, 2018 - Springer
Voltage-gated calcium channels (VGCCs) play a critical role in neuroinflammatory diseases,
such as multiple sclerosis (MS). CTK 01512-2 is a recombinant version of the peptide Phα1β …

[HTML][HTML] Ovariectomy-induced depressive-like behavior and brain glucose metabolism changes in female rats are not affected by chronic mild stress

MA Khayum, R Moraga-Amaro, B Buwalda… - …, 2020 - Elsevier
The increased incidence of depression in women going through peri-menopause suggests
that fluctuations in estrogen levels may increase the risk of developing depression …

Depression comorbidity in epileptic rats is related to brain glucose hypometabolism and hypersynchronicity in the metabolic network architecture

G Zanirati, PN Azevedo, GT Venturin, S Greggio… - …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Objective Temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE) is one of the most common types of epilepsy
syndromes in the world. Depression is an important comorbidity of epilepsy, which has been …

Subanesthetic ketamine decreases the incentive-motivational value of reward-related cues

CJ Fitzpatrick, JD Morrow - Journal of Psychopharmacology, 2017 - journals.sagepub.com
The attribution of incentive-motivational value to reward-related cues contributes to cue-
induced craving and relapse in addicted patients. Recently, it was demonstrated that …

[HTML][HTML] Neurotoxic and convulsant effects induced by jack bean ureases on the mammalian nervous system

CGM Almeida, K Costa-Higuchi, AR Piovesan… - Toxicology, 2021 - Elsevier
Ureases are microbial virulence factors either because of the enzymatic release of ammonia
or due to many other non-enzymatic effects. Here we studied two neurotoxic urease …

[HTML][HTML] Ketamine promotes increased freezing behavior in rats with experimental PTSD without changing brain glucose metabolism or BDNF

L Saur, LT Neves, S Greggio, GT Venturin… - Neuroscience …, 2017 - Elsevier
Acute treatment with ketamine, an NMDA receptor antagonist, has been reported to be
efficacious in treating depression. The goal of our study was to evaluate ketamine treatment …

Cortical bilateral adaptations in rats submitted to focal cerebral ischemia: emphasis on glial metabolism

Y Nonose, PE Gewehr, RF Almeida, JS da Silva… - Molecular …, 2018 - Springer
This study was performed to evaluate the bilateral effects of focal permanent ischemia (FPI)
on glial metabolism in the cerebral cortex. Two and 9 days after FPI induction, we analyze …