Anxious Behavior and Fenfluramine-Induced Prolactin Secretion in Young Rhesus Macaques with Different Alleles of the Serotonin Reuptake Transporter Polymorphism (5HTTLPR)

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 295-307

  Bethea, Cynthia L ^a,b   Streicher, John M ^a,b   Coleman, Kristine ^a   Pau, Francis K Y ^a   Moessner, Rainald ^c   Cameron, Judy L ^a,b  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

5HTTLPR; Anxiety; Behavior testing; Fenfluramine; Gene polymorphism; Macaque; Nonhuman primate; Serotonin; Serotonin reuptake transporter

Indexed keywords

FENFLURAMINE; PROLACTIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ALLELE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA POLYMORPHISM; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE DELETION; GENE INSERTION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GENETIC CODE; GENETIC TRAIT; GENOTYPE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PROLACTIN RELEASE; RHESUS MONKEY;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FENFLURAMINE; GROOMING; MACACA MULATTA; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; POLYMORPHISM, GENETIC; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SLEEP;

ANIMALIA; INSERTION SEQUENCES; MACACA; MACACA MULATTA; PRIMATES;

EID: 1842457737     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BEGE.0000017873.61607.be     Document Type: Article

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