{"id":26231,"date":"2024-09-01T10:44:05","date_gmt":"2024-09-01T05:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=26231"},"modified":"2025-04-08T00:37:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-07T19:07:34","slug":"fluoxetine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/fluoxetine\/","title":{"rendered":"Fluoxetine"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Fluoxetine:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a common <strong>antidepressant medication.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It inhibits the uptake of serotonin by nerve cells (neurons) and helps people with depression, panic, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive symptoms.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Effects of fluoxetine<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>At low concentrations, fluoxetine <strong>reduces activity levels<\/strong> and increased refuge-seeking behaviour in male guppy fish.<\/li>\n<li>It also altered their <strong>body condition, increased the size<\/strong> of their reproductive organs, and reduced sperm velocity. These effects could have significant implications for mating success and reproductive fitness in polluted waters.<\/li>\n<li>Fluoxetine exposure <strong>reduced behavioural plasticity<\/strong> in the fish, suppressing within-individual variation in both activity and refuge.<\/li>\n<li>Individual fishes are behaving more rigidly, potentially limiting their ability to respond flexibly to their environment.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>High fluoxetine concentrations increased variation in body condition between individuals, while low concentrations increased variation in sperm numbers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Key facts about Guppy Fish<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>These are a small, pretty species of fish that are extremely popular for home aquariums.<\/li>\n<li>These are a species of small <strong>tropical freshwater fish.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>These are <strong>sexually dimorphic<\/strong>, meaning there are distinct differences between males and females of the species.<\/li>\n<li>Male guppies are brightly colored in shades of black, green, orange, red, white, and yellow and have patterns like speckles, spots, and stripes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Distribution:<\/strong> Guppies are native to certain countries and islands in South America: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Brazil, Guyana, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is a neuron?<\/h3>\n<p>These are also known as a nerve cell, is a specialized cell in the nervous system that is responsible for transmitting information through electrical and chemical signals. Neurons are the basic building blocks of the nervous system and play a crucial role in processing and transmitting information within the body.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.downtoearth.org.in\/wildlife-biodiversity\/pharmaceutical-pollutants-altering-fish-behaviour-reproductive-patterns-and-life-history-study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Pharmaceutical pollutants altering fish behaviour, reproductive patterns and life history: Study<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fluoxetine inhibits the uptake of serotonin by nerve cells (neurons) and helps people with depression, panic, anxiety, or obsessive-compulsive symptoms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":26232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-26231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}