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A New Method for Inducing a Depression-Like Behavior in Rats

A New Method for Inducing a Depression-Like Behavior in Rats

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February 22, 2018

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10.3791/57137-v

DOI:
10.3791/57137-v

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07:57 min
February 22, 2018

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1Department of Emergent Medicine, Soroka University Medical Center,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 2Division of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Soroka Medical Center,Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, 3Department of Biophysics and Biochemistry,Oles’ Honchar Dnipro National University

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This protocol describes a new model by which healthy rats could contract depression over a given time periodthrough contagion by exposure to chronic unpredictable stressed (CUS) rats.

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Zeldetz, V., Natanel, D., Boyko, M., Zlotnik, A., Shiyntum, H. N., Grinshpun, J., Frank, D., Kuts, R., Brotfain, E., Peiser, J. A New Method for Inducing a Depression-Like Behavior in Rats. J. Vis. Exp. (132), e57137, doi:10.3791/57137 (2018).

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