Activation of phenotypically distinct neuronal subpopulations in the anterior subdivision of the rat basolateral amygdala following acute and repeated stress

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 508, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 458-472

  Reznikov, Leah R ^a   Reagan, Lawrence P ^a   Fadel, Jim R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

c Fos; Calbindin; Calcium calmodulin dependent kinase II; Calretinin; Mood disorders; Parvalbumin

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALCIUM; CALRETININ; PARVALBUMIN; PROTEIN C FOS; PROTEIN KINASE (CALCIUM,CALMODULIN) II;

ACUTE STRESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; ORGANIC CHEMICALS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 42449144690     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21687     Document Type: Article

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