Impaired hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis and its feedback regulation in serotonin transporter knockout mice

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 317-331

  Jiang, Xue ^a,b   Wang, Jing ^a   Luo, Tian ^a   Li, Qian ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MEDICAL BRANCH   (United States)

^b CHONGQING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

CRF mRNA; CRF type 1 receptors; Dexamethasone; Glucocorticoid receptors; Hypothalamus; Pituitary; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RECEPTOR BINDING; RECEPTOR DENSITY; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEEDBACK, BIOCHEMICAL; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 59249089847     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.09.011     Document Type: Article

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