Table of Contents
Preface: focus on serotonin transporter Allan V. Kalueff and Justin L. LaPorte; 1. Presynaptic adaptive responses to constitutive versus adult pharmacologic inhibition of serotonin uptake Beth A. Luellen, Tracy L. Gilman and Anne M. Andrews; 2. Cellular and molecular alterations in animal models of serotonin transporter disruption: a comparison between developmental and adult stages Qian Li; 3. Developmental roles for the serotonin transporter Antonio M. Persico; 4. SERT models of emotional dysregulation Adam Tripp and Etienne Sibille; 5. The serotonin transporter and animal models of depression Daniela Popa, Chloé Alexandre, Joëlle Adrien and Clément Léna; 6. The serotonin transporter knockout rat: a review Jocelien Olivier, Alexander Cools, Bart Ellenbroek, Edwin Cuppen and Judith Homberg; 7. Wistar-Zagreb 5HT rats: a rodent model with constitutional upregulation/downregulation of serotonin transporter Lipa Cicin-Sain and Branimir Jernej; 8. The role of the serotonin transporter in reward mechanisms F. Scott Hall, Ichiro Sora, Maria T. G. Perona and George R. Uhl; 9. Modeling SERT x BDNF interactions in brain disorders: single BDNF gene allele exacerbates brain monoamine deficiencies and increases stress abnormalities in serotonin transporter knockout mice Justin L. LaPorte, Renee F. Ren-Patterson, Dennis L. Murphy and Allan V. Kalueff; 10. Primate models in serotonin transporter research Khalisa N. Herman, James T. Winslow and Stephen J. Suomi; 11. The role of serotonin transporter in modeling psychiatric disorders: focus on depression, emotion regulation, and the social brain Klaus-Peter Lesch.