Social defeat, a paradigm of depression in rats that elicits 22-kHz vocalizations, preferentially activates the cholinergic signaling pathway in the periaqueductal gray

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 182, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 290-300

  Kroes, Roger A ^a   Burgdorf, Jeffrey ^a   Otto, Nigel J ^a   Panksepp, Jaak ^a,b   Moskal, Joseph R ^a  

^a Northwestern University   (United States)

^b WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; Cholinergic; Depression; Genes; Microarray; qRT PCR; Rats; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; CHOLINERGIC SYSTEM; DEPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; VOCALIZATION;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; PROTEIN ARRAY ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34547096036     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.03.022     Document Type: Article

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