Deficient hippocampal c-fos expression results in reduced anxiety and altered response to chronic stress in female mice

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 403, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 125-130

  McQuade, Jill M Slane ^a   Tamashiro, Kellie L K ^a   Wood, Gwendolyn E ^b   Herman, James P ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^b   Sakai, Randall R ^a   Zhang, Jianhua ^a   Xu, Ming ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; c fos; Hippocampus; Restraint stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; MOUSE MUTANT; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, MUTANT STRAINS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33745480207     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2006.04.022     Document Type: Article

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