Stress and glucocorticoids affect the expression of brain-derived neurotrophic factor and neurotrophin-3 mRNAs in the hippocampus

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 15, Issue 3 I, 1995, Pages 1768-1777

  Smith, Mark A ^a   Makino, Shinya ^a   Kvetnansky, Richard ^b   Post, Robert M ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL ENDOCRINOLOGY   (Slovakia)

Author keywords

brain derived neurotrophic factor; glucocorticoids; hippocampus; neurotrophin 3; plasticity; stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; NEUROTROPHIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL SURVIVAL; DENTATE GYRUS; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 0028970281     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.15-03-01768.1995     Document Type: Article

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