Acute corticosterone treatment is sufficient to induce anxiety and amygdaloid dendritic hypertrophy

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 105, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 5573-5578

  Mitra, Rupshi ^a   Sapolsky, Robert M ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Glucocorticoid; Neuron

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL SIZE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEAR; HYPERTROPHY; LOCOMOTION; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CORTICOSTERONE; DENDRITES; HYPERTROPHY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; STRESS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 44449109487     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0705615105     Document Type: Article

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