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Prog Neuropsychopharmacol Biol Psychiatry
; 19(8): 1277-84, 1995 Dec.
Artigo
em Inglês
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-8868209
RESUMO
1. Several pharmacological maneuvers in very young rats produce later changes resembling human depression. 2. Rats were submitted to a wide lesion in lateral septal region at 8th day after birth and forced to swim at maturity. 3. Male lesioned group showed the highest amount of immobility; whereas, female sham lesion group showed a greater response to treatments. 4. A gender-dependent sensitivity to early lateral septal nucleus lesions and to antidepressants are concluded.