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Iron Aggravates the Depressive Phenotype of Stressed Mice by Compromising the Glymphatic System

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This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (81871852, 81200935, 81671867 and 81971794), the Liaoning Revitalization Talents Program (XLYC1807137), the Scientific Research Foundation for Returned Scholars of the Ministry of Education of China (20151098), and the Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province, China (20170541030).

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  1. Practical Teaching Center, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, 110122, China

    Shanshan Liang, Zexiong Li, Shuai Li, Beina Chen, Manman Zhang, Binjie Chen, Ming Ji, Wenliang Gong, Alexei Verkhratsky & Baoman Li

  2. Key Laboratory of the Ministry of Health in Congenital Malformation, The Affiliated Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, 110004, China

    Yan Lu

  3. Department of Orthopedics, The First Hospital, China Medical University, Shenyang, 110001, China

    Maosheng Xia

  4. Faculty of Biology, Medicine and Health, The University of Manchester, Manchester, UK

    Alexei Verkhratsky

  5. Achucarro Center for Neuroscience, IKERBASQUE, 48011, Bilbao, Spain

    Alexei Verkhratsky

  6. Department of Forensic Pathology, School of Forensic Medicine, China Medical University, Shenyang, 110122, China

    Xu Wu

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Liang, S., Lu, Y., Li, Z. et al. Iron Aggravates the Depressive Phenotype of Stressed Mice by Compromising the Glymphatic System. Neurosci. Bull. 36, 1542–1546 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12264-020-00539-x

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