Heptapeptide semax attenuates the effects of chronic unpredictable stress in rats

@article{Yatsenko2013HeptapeptideSA,
  title={Heptapeptide semax attenuates the effects of chronic unpredictable stress in rats},
  author={K. A. Yatsenko and N. Yu. Glazova and Lyudmila S. Inozemtseva and Lyudmila A. Andreeva and A. A. Kamensky and Igor A. Grivennikov and Natalia G Levitskaya and Oleg V. Dolotov and Nikolay F. Myasoedov},
  journal={Doklady Biological Sciences},
  year={2013},
  volume={453},
  pages={353-357}
}
353 Chronic stress is a risk factor of a number of pathol ogies, including depressive disorders [1], with a high degree of comorbidity of depression and anxiety disor ders [2]. In addition, in many patients with these pathologies, disturbance of cognitive functions has been observed [3]. In experiments on animals, it has been demonstrated that, in rats, chronic stress also causes cognitive disturbances and behavioral disor ders, including an elevated level of anxiety and depres sive like… 
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