Mice selected for high versus low stress reactivity: A new animal model for affective disorders

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 839-862

  Touma, Chadi ^a   Bunck, Mirjam ^a   Glasl, Lisa ^a   Nussbaumer, Markus ^a   Palme, Rupert ^b   Stein, Hendrik ^a   Wolferstätter, Michael ^a   Zeh, Ramona ^a   Zimbelmann, Marina ^a   Holsboer, Florian ^a   Landgraf, Rainer ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VETERINARY MEDICINE   (Austria)

Author keywords

Animal model; Atypical depression; HPA axis reactivity; Melancholic depression; Selective breeding; Subtypes of major depression

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MELANCHOLIA; MOOD DISORDER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BREEDING; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MOOD DISORDERS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; SELECTION (GENETICS); STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 46249107947     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.03.013     Document Type: Article

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