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Depression
Reports outline depression research from Chinese Academy of Sciences
December 30th, 2006
Researchers detail in "The depressive-like behaviors are correlated with decreased phosphorylation of mitogen-activated protein kinases in rat brain following chronic forced swim stress," new data in depression. According to recent research published in the journal Behavioural Brain Research, "In the present study, 40 Sprague-Dawley rats were divided into forced swim stress group and controls, with 20 rats in each group (10 for behavioral tests, 10 for protein detection). The forced swim stress group received swim stress for 14 consecutive days, and the controls were stress-free." "After stress, 20 rats were tested for behavioral observation using body weight...
Source: Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week (2006-12-30)
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