Abstract: | No interstrain differences were revealed in vasopressin concentration in the hypothalamus of control and treated active and passive rats with poststress depression. Changes in vasopressin immunoreactivity corresponded to variations in corticotropin-releasing hormone concentration observed in this model of depression. These data suggest that vasopressin contributes to the development of this experimental psychopathology. __________ Translated from Byulleten’ Eksperimental’noi Biologii i Meditsiny, Vol. 140, No. 12, pp. 618–621, December, 2005 |