Learned Immobility Is Also Involved in the Forced Swimming Test in Mice

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  • Andrés Parra
  • Concepción Vinader-Caerols
  • Santiago Monleón
  • Vicente M. Simón
چکیده

monly used for the assessment of the antidepressant-like properties of drugs (Cesana, Ciprandi and Borsini, 1995; Cohen, Perrault and Sanger, 1997; Hemby et al., 1997). In the original Porsolt test (Porsolt, Le Pichon and Jalfre, 1977b), rats are immersed during a fifteen minute pre-test in a cylindrical tank with water. Twenty four hours later, the rats are replaced in the cylinder for five minutes Psicothema, 1999. Vol. 11, no 2, pp. 239-246 ISSN 0214 9915 CODEN PSOTEG Copyright © 1998 Psicothema

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تاریخ انتشار 2002