• Antidepressant-relevant behavioral and synaptic molecular effects of long-term fasudil treatment in chronically stressed male rats 

    Román-Albasini, Luciano; Díaz-Véliz, Gabriela; Olave, Felipe A.; Aguayo, Felipe; García-Rojo, Gonzalo; Corrales, Wladimir; Silva, Juan P.; Ávalos, Ana; Rojas, Paulina S.; Aliaga-Rojas, Esteban; Fiedler, Jenny L. (2020)
    Several lines of evidence suggest that antidepressant drugs may act by modulating neuroplasticity pathways in key brain areas like the hippocampus. We have reported that chronic treatment with fasudil, a Rho-associated ...

  • Hippocampal memory recovery after acute stress: A behavioral, morphological and molecular study 

    Aguayo, Felipe I.; Tejos-Bravo, Macarena; Díaz-Véliz, Gabriela; Pacheco, Aníbal; García-Rojo, Gonzalo; Corrales, Wladimir; Olave, Felipe A.; Aliaga-Rojas, Esteban; Ulloa, José L.; Avalos, Ana M.; Román-Albasini, Luciano; Rojas, Paulina S.; Fiedler, Jenny L. (2018)
    Several studies have shown that a single exposure to stress may improve or impair learning and memory processes, depending on the timing in which the stress event occurs with relation to the acquisition phase. However, to ...

  • The ROCK inhibitor fasudil prevents chronic restraint stress-induced depressive-like behaviors and dendritic spine loss in rat hippocampus 

    Aliaga-Rojas, Esteban; García-Rojo, Gonzalo; Fresno, Cristóbal; Vilches, Natalia; Mora, Sergio; Tejos, Macarena; Díaz-Véliz, Gabriela; Aguayo, Felipe I.; Fiedler, Jenny L.; Parra, Claudio S.; Parra-Fiedler, Nicolás; Rojas, Paulina S.; Pacheco, Aníbal (2017)
    Background: Dendritic arbor simplification and dendritic spine loss in the hippocampus, a limbic structure implicated in mood disorders, are assumed to contribute to symptoms of depression. These morphological changes imply ...