Anxiolytic properties of agomelatine, an antidepressant with melatoninergic and serotonergic properties: role of 5-HT2C receptor blockade

@article{Millan2005AnxiolyticPO,
  title={Anxiolytic properties of agomelatine, an antidepressant with melatoninergic and serotonergic properties: role of 5-HT2C receptor blockade},
  author={Mark J Millan and Mauricette Brocco and Alain P. Gobert and Anne Dekeyne},
  journal={Psychopharmacology},
  year={2005},
  volume={177},
  pages={448-458}
}
RationaleThe novel antidepressant agent, agomelatine, behaves as an agonist at melatonin receptors and as an antagonist at serotonin (5-HT)2C receptors.ObjectivesTo determine whether, by virtue of its antagonist properties at 5-HT2C receptors, agomelatine elicits anxiolytic properties in rats.MethodsEmploying a combined neurochemical and behavioural approach, actions of agomelatine were compared to those of melatonin, the selective 5-HT2C receptor antagonist, SB243,213, and the benzodiazepine… 
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