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Acute treatment of rats with L. obtusiloba extracts (200 mg\/kg, p.o.) significantly reduced immobility time and increased swimming time without any significant change in climbing. Rats treated with L. obtusiloba extracts also exhibited a decrease in the limbic hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis response to the FST, as indicated by attenuation of the corticosterone response and decreased c-Fos immunoreactivity in the hippocampus CA3 region. In addition, L. obtusiloba extracts, at concentrations that were not affected by cell viability, significantly decreased luciferase activity in response to cortisol in a concentration-dependent manner by the glucocorticoid binding assay in HeLa cells. Our findings suggested that the antidepressant-like effects of L. obtusiloba extracts were likely mediated via the glucocorticoid receptor (GR). Further studies are needed to evaluate the potential of L. obtusiloba extracts as an alternative therapeutic approach for the treatment of depression.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/molecules21030277","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2016,2,29]],"date-time":"2016-02-29T10:55:59Z","timestamp":1456743359000},"page":"277","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":7,"title":["Antidepressant-Like Effects of Lindera obtusiloba Extracts on the Immobility Behavior of Rats in the Forced Swim Test"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"21","author":[{"given":"Dong","family":"Lim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group of Innovative Special Food, Korea Food Research Institute, Seongnam 463-746, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Mi-Sook","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Bio-Imaging, Chuncheon Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Chuncheon 200-701, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Song","family":"Her","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Division of Bio-Imaging, Chuncheon Center, Korea Basic Science Institute, Chuncheon 200-701, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Suengmok","family":"Cho","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group of Innovative Special Food, Korea Food Research Institute, Seongnam 463-746, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Chang-Ho","family":"Lee","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group of Innovative Special Food, Korea Food Research Institute, Seongnam 463-746, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"In-Ho","family":"Kim","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group of Innovative Special Food, Korea Food Research Institute, Seongnam 463-746, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Daeseok","family":"Han","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Research Group of Innovative Special Food, Korea Food Research Institute, Seongnam 463-746, Korea"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2016,2,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","first-page":"741","article-title":"Limbic-hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis in depression: Literature review","volume":"30","author":"Twardowska","year":"1996","journal-title":"Psychiatr. 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