Hormones Of The Limbic System

V O LU M E E I G H T Y- T WO VITAMINS AND HORMONES Hormones of the Limbic System VITAMINS AND HORMONES Editorial Board TADHG P. BEGLEY ANTHONY R. MEANS BERT W. O’MALLEY LYNN RIDDIFORD ARMEN H. TASHJIAN, JR. V O LU M E E I G H T Y- T WO VITAMINS AND HORMONES Hormones of the Limbic System Editor-in-Chief GERALD LITWACK Chair, Department of Basic Sciences The Commonwealth Medical College Scranton, Pennsylvania AMSTERDAM • BOSTON • HEIDELBERG • LONDON NEW YORK • OXFORD • PARIS • SAN DIEGO SAN FRANCISCO • SINGAPORE • SYDNEY • TOKYO Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier Cover photo credit: Kobayashi, K. Hippocampal mossy fiber synaptic transmission and its modulation. Vitamins and Hormones (2010) 82, pp. 65–86. Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier 32 Jamestown Road, London, NWI 7BY, UK Radarweg 29, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands Linacre House, Jordan Hill, Oxford OX2 8DP, UK 30 Corporate Drive, Suite 400, Burlington, MA 01803, USA 525 B Street, Suite 1900, San Diego, CA 92101-4495, USA First edition 2010 Copyright # 2010 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone (+44) (0) 1865 843830; fax (+44) (0) 1865 853333; email: [email protected] Alternatively you can submit your request online by visiting the Elsevier web site at http://elsevier.com/locate/permissions, and selecting Obtaining permission to use Elsevier material Notice No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein. Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made ISBN: 978-0-12-381515-6 ISSN: 0083-6729 For information on all Academic Press publications visit our website at elsevierdirect.com Printed and bound in USA 10 11 12 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Former Editors ROBERT S. HARRIS KENNETH V. THIMANN Newton, Massachusetts University of California Santa Cruz, California JOHN A. LORRAINE University of Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland PAUL L. MUNSON University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, North Carolina JOHN GLOVER University of Liverpool Liverpool, England GERALD D. AURBACH Metabolic Diseases Branch National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases National Institutes of Health Bethesda, Maryland IRA G. WOOL University of Chicago Chicago, Illinois EGON DICZFALUSY Karolinska Sjukhuset Stockholm, Sweden ROBERT OLSEN School of Medicine State University of New York at Stony Brook Stony Brook, New York DONALD B. MCCORMICK Department of Biochemistry Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia CONTENTS Contributors Preface 1. Models of Depression xv xix 1 Catharine H. Duman I. Introduction II. General Considerations in Modeling Depression III. Stress and Models of Depression IV. Models V. Concluding Remarks References 2. Astrocytes in the Amygdala 2 2 4 6 15 15 23 Ryan T. Johnson, S. Marc Breedlove, and Cynthia L. Jordan I. The Amygdala II. Glia III. Amygdala Glia and Disease IV. Amygdala Glia and Hormon