Long-term effects of a single exposure to immobilization: A C-fos mRNA study of the response to the homotypic stressor in the rat brain

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 591-602

  Vallès, Astrid ^a   Martí, Octavi ^a   Armario, Antonio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT AUTÒNOMA DE BARCELONA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus; C fos; Hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus; Medial amygdala; Stress

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; EXERCISE; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NERVE TRACT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPTAL NUCLEI; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME;

EID: 33846826482     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.20252     Document Type: Article

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