Lasting changes in social behavior and amygdala function following traumatic experience induced by a single series of foot-shocks

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 33, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1198-1210

  Mikics, Éva ^a   Tóth, Máté ^a   Varjú, Patrícia ^a   Gereben, Balázs ^a   Liposits, Zsolt ^a   Ashaber, Mária ^a   Halász, József ^a   Barna, István ^a   Farkas, Imre ^a   Haller, József ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Amygdala; CRF; NK1 receptor; PTSD; Social behavior; Trauma

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; ELECTROSTIMULATION; FOOTSHOCK; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INJURY; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, NEUROKININ-1; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 51249102385     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.06.006     Document Type: Article

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