Corticosteroid hormones in pathogenetic heterogenety of post-stress depression
Semenova, M.G.; Rakitskaia, V.V.; Shaliapina, V.G.
Rossiiskii Fiziologicheskii Zhurnal Imeni I.M. Sechenova 93(1): 63-67
2007
ISSN/ISBN: 0869-8139 PMID: 17465275 Document Number: 614134
The role of corticosteroid hormones in post-stress depression progress and their usage for correction of this psychopathology was studied in active and passive Wistar rats. It was found that only passive individuals had sensitivity to corticosteroids and, among them, only adrenal gland hormones lead to corrections of post-stress depression.