Stress reactivity of the brain noradrenergic system in three rat strains differing in their neuroendocrine and behavioral responses to stress: Implications for susceptibility to stress-related neuropsychiatric disorders

Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 229-242

  Pardon, M C ^a   Gould, G G ^a   Garcia, A ^a   Phillips, L ^a   Cook, M C ^b   Miller, S A ^c   Mason, P A ^c   Morilak, D A ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b Veridian Inc   (United States)

^c AIR FORCE RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arousal; Elevated plus maze; Fear potentiated startle; Norepinephrine; Social interaction; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCOMOTION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEASUREMENT; MENTAL DISEASE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STARTLE REFLEX; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; NOREPINEPHRINE; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, INBRED WKY; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, ADRENERGIC; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS;

EID: 0037110646     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00364-0     Document Type: Article

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