Immunohistochemical changes induced by repeated footshock stress: Revelations of gender-based differences

Neurobiology of Disease

Volumn 14, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 602-618

  Trentani, A ^a,b   Kuipers, S D ^a   Te Meerman, G J ^c   Beekman, J ^a   Ter Horst, G J ^a   Den Boer, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b 1339 UW Psychiatric Institute and Clinics   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

c fos; Female; Footshock; Gene expression arrays; Male; Neuronal plasticity; Phospho ERK1 2; Stress

Indexed keywords

DNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; PROTEIN C FOS;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AVERSION; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DNA MICROARRAY; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEUROPATHY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SHOCK; STRESS; UNINDEXED SEQUENCE;

EID: 0346218250     PISSN: 09699961     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nbd.2003.08.006     Document Type: Article

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