Chronic social stress in the visible burrow system modulates stress-related gene expression in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 89, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 301-310

  Choi, Dennis C ^a   Nguyen, Mary M N ^a   Tamashiro, Kellie L K ^a   Ma, Li Yun ^a   Sakai, Randall R ^a   Herman, James P ^a  

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

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Corticosterone; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; HPA axis

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MESSENGER RNA; VASOPRESSIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIAL STATUS; STRIA TERMINALIS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 33748929663     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2006.05.046     Document Type: Article

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