Medium-chain fatty acid-containing dietary oil alleviates the depression-like behaviour in mice exposed to stress due to chronic forced swimming

Antidepressant-like effects of medium-chain fatty acid-containing dietary oil were examined by using mice forced to swim. This stress loading induced features typical for depression such as depressive symptoms and decreased the ratio of phosphorylated (p) extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK)...

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Main Authors: Hisami Shinohara, Hidefumi Fukumitsu, Akira Seto, Shoei Furukawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2013-04-01
Series:Journal of Functional Foods
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1756464613000029