Chronic social stress reduces dendritic arbors in CA3 of hippocampus and decreases binding to serotonin transporter sites

Synapse

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 85-94

  McKittrick, Christina R ^a,e   Magariños, Ana María ^a   Blanchard, D Caroline ^b   Blanchard, Robert J ^c   McEwen, Bruce S ^a   Sakai, Randall R ^d  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^e RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ammon's horn; Chronic stress; Golgi impregnation; HPA axis; Social stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PAROXETINE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BINDING AFFINITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BINDING SITES; BODY WEIGHT; CARRIER PROTEINS; CELL SIZE; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORTICOSTERONE; DENDRITES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PAROXETINE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RADIOLIGAND ASSAY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 0343729306     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2396(200005)36:2<85::AID-SYN1>3.0.CO;2-Y     Document Type: Article

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