Defensive behavioral strategies and enhanced state anxiety during chronic subordinate colony housing are accompanied by reduced hypothalamic vasopressin, but not oxytocin, expression

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1148, Issue , 2008, Pages 184-195

  Reber, Stefan O ^a   Neumann, Inga D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Arginine vasopressin; Chronic psychosocial stress; CSC; In situ hybridization; Light dark box; Oxytocin; Plus maze, paraventricular nucleus

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPEPTIDE; OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; CHRONIC STRESS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; REGULATORY MECHANISM; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; WEIGHT GAIN;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 57649221145     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1196/annals.1410.003     Document Type: Conference Paper

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