Gender-specific effects of social housing on chronic stress-induced limbic FOS expression

Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 189-199

  Westenbroek, C ^a   Den Boer, J A ^a   Ter Horst, G J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Adrenal; Amygdala; Foot shocks; Paraventricular nucleus; Raphe; Reward system; Social support

Indexed keywords

MARKER; PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; GENDER; HOUSING; HYPOTHESIS; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MEASUREMENT; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SHOCK; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS;

EID: 0142060296     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(03)00367-1     Document Type: Article

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