Mice that under- or overexpress glucocorticoid receptors as models for depression or posttraumatic stress disorder

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 167, Issue , 2007, Pages 65-77

  Chourbaji, Sabine ^a   Vogt, Miriam A ^a   Gass, Peter ^a  

^a CENTRAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Germany)

Author keywords

behavior; glucocorticoid receptor; HPA system; learned helplessness; mice; stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; IMIPRAMINE;

BEHAVIOR; CELL STRUCTURE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; HEREDITY; HETEROZYGOTE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHIATRY; REVIEW; SENSITIZATION; STRESS; TRANSGENIC MOUSE; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MICE, TRANSGENIC; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 36248988437     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(07)67005-8     Document Type: Review

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