Depressed mice could aid research on drug-resistant depression in humans
Tuesday, June 29, 2010 - 21:29
in Health & Medicine
New research shows that a unique strain of laboratory mice has behavioral, hormonal, and neurochemical characteristics that are similar to those of human patients with drug-resistant forms of depression. The mice -- which have a defect in a gene -- are expected to be useful as a new model organism in the effort to develop more effective medications for specific forms of depression.
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