Timing of progesterone and allopregnanolone effects in a serial forced swim test.

The forced swim test (FST) is commonly employed to test the potency of drugs to reduce immobility as an indicator of anti-despair. Certainly, antidepressant drugs reduce the total time of immobility and enlarge the latency to the first immobility period. FST is preceded by the open field test (OFT)...

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Published in:	Salud Mental Vol. 34; no. 4; pp. 309 - 315
Main Authors:	Contreras, Carlos M., Francisco Rodríguez-Landa, Juan, Bernal-Morales, Blandina, Gutiérrez-García, Ana G., Saavedra, Margarita
Format:	Article
Published:	Instituto Nacional de Psiquiatria Ramon de la Fuente jul2011
Subjects:	Antidepressants Progesterone Therapeutics Mental depression Anxiety treatment Psychological stress testing
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