Mice deficient for corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor-2 display anxiety-like behaviour and are hypersensitive to stress

Nature Genetics

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 410-414

  Bale, Tracy L ^a   Contarino, Angelo ^b   Smith, George W ^a   Chan, Raymond ^a   Gold, Lisa H ^b   Sawchenko, Paul E ^a   Koob, George F ^b   Vale, Wylie W ^a   Lee, Kuo Fen ^a  

^a SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

^b SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; EMBRYO; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HORMONAL REGULATION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENOUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; NITROPRUSSIDE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; STRESS; VASODILATOR AGENTS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; RODENTIA;

EID: 0034127008     PISSN: 10614036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/74263     Document Type: Article

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