Oxytocin Attenuates Stress-Induced c-fos mRNA Expression in Specific Forebrain Regions Associated with Modulation of Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal Activity

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 24, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2974-2982

  Windle, Richard J ^b   Kershaw, Yvonne M ^a   Shanks, Nola ^a   Wood, Susan A ^a   Lightman, Stafford L ^a   Ingram, Colin D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

ACTH; Amygdala; c fos; Corticosterone; Corticotrophin releasing factor; Hippocampus; HPA axis; Immediate early gene; Limbic; Oxytocin; Paraventricular nucleus; Restraint stress; Septum; Thalamus; Vasopressin; Ventrolateral septum

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTRADIOL; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; OXYTOCIN; PROTEIN C FOS; VASOPRESSIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASE; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HABENULA; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; NERVE CELL STIMULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRIFORM CORTEX; RAT; STRESS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; OXYTOCIN; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS;

EID: 1642505806     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3432-03.2004     Document Type: Article

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