Activation of serotonin-immunoreactive cells in the dorsal raphe nucleus in rats exposed to an uncontrollable stressor

Brain Research

Volumn 826, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 35-43

  Grahn, R E ^a   Will, M J ^a   Hammack, S E ^a   Maswood, S ^a   McQueen, M B ^a   Watkins, L R ^a   Maier, S F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Fos; Immunohistochemistry; Raphe nuclei; Serotonin; Stress

Indexed keywords

GENE PRODUCT; PROTEIN C FOS; SEROTONIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FEAR; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SHOCK; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; DEPRESSION; MALE; NEURONS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; STRESS;

EID: 0033599705     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01208-1     Document Type: Article

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