Tricyclic Antidepressant Amitriptyline Indirectly Increases the Proliferation of Adult Dentate Gyrus-Derived Neural Precursors: An Involvement of Astrocytes

• Shuken Boku ,

  * E-mail: shuboku@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, United States of America, Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Kazue Hisaoka-Nakashima,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Shin Nakagawa,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Akiko Kato,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Naoto Kajitani,

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology, Hiroshima University Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, Hiroshima, Japan

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• Takeshi Inoue,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Ichiro Kusumi,

  Affiliation Department of Psychiatry, Hokkaido University Graduate School of Medicine, Sapporo, Japan

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• Minoru Takebayashi

  Affiliation Division of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Institute for Clinical Research, NHO Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center, Kure, Japan

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