Depression Research Group

  The Depression Research Group is one of the many research groups in the Department of Integrative Medicine and Neurobiology at Shanghai Medical College of Fudan University. Under the direction of associate professor Jin Yu, the focus of the group is on the etiology of depression in several depression animal models, as well as electroacupuncture (EA) treatments of depression. Studies include comparisons between EA-treated animals, sham EA-treated animals and other antidepressants treatment groups, to identify specific factors, which included hippocampal neurogenesis, neurotrophic factors, neurotransmitters, glia pathology and so on, associated with depression, as well as studies that focus on the possible mechanism of EA treatment. 

  We hope that this introduction to the work that we are doing will stimulate your further interest in the topic of depression. 

Main subjects：
Depression & adult neurogenesis  
Depression & glia pathology  
Depression & epigenetics  

Publications: 
1. Liu Q, Li B, Zhu HY, Wang YQ, Yu J, Wu GC. Clomipramine treatment reversed the glial pathology in a chronic unpredictable stress-induced rat model of depression. Eur Neuropsychopharmacol. 2009, 19(11):796-805 
2. Liu Q, Yu J, Mao-Ying QL, Mi WL, Li B, Wang YQ, Wang J, Wu GC. Repeated clomipramine treatment reversed the inhibition of cell proliferation in adult hippocampus induced by chronic unpredictable stress. Pharmacogenomics J. 2008 Dec;8(6):375-83.
3. Yu J, Liu Q, Wang YQ, Wang J, Li XY, Cao XD, Wu GC. Electroacupuncture combined with clomipramine enhances antidepressant effect in rodents. Neurosci Lett. 2007, 421 (1): 5-9.
4. Liu Q, Yu J, Mi WL, Mao-Ying QL, Yang R, Wang YQ, Wu GC. Electroacupuncture attenuates the decrease of hippocampal progenitor cell proliferation in the adult rats exposed to chronic unpredictable stress. Life Sci. 2007, 81(21-22): 1489-95.
5. Yu J, Li XY, Cao XD, Wu GC. Sucrose preference is restored by electro-acupuncture combined with clomipramine in the depression-model rats. Acupunct Electrother Res. 2006, 31(3-4): 223-32. 
6. 俞瑾, 景政, 刘琼, 汪军, 王彦青, 吴根诚. 电针对抑郁模型大鼠行为活动的影响. 针刺研究, 2006, 26 (1): 31-34 
7. 刘琼，俞瑾，毛应启梁，宋明娟，米文丽，吴根诚。 电针对慢性应激抑郁模型大鼠行为改变的影响，上海针灸杂志，2005, 24：41－43。
8. 刘琼，俞瑾，吴根诚。Neurogenesis in adult brain and depression, Neuroscience Bulletin（神经科学通报）, 2005,21,436-440.
9. 俞瑾, 李晓艳, 曹小定, 吴根诚. 电针合用抗抑郁药能明显减少小鼠强迫游泳实验中的静止时间[J]. 针刺研究, 2002, 27 (2): 119-123.