Published in Surgery Litigation and Law Weekly, March 16th, 2007
Study 1: New research, "The role of noradrenergic tone in the dorsal raphe nucleus of the mouse in the acute behavioral effects of antidepressant drugs," is the subject of a report. "Serotonin neurons of the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) receive dense noradrenergic innervation and are under tonic activation by noradrenergic input. Thus, afferent noradrenergic input to the DRN could modify the antidepressant effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) by regulating serotonergic transmission," scientists in the United States report.
"This study investigated...
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