Progesterone modulation of α5 nAChR subunits influences anxiety-related behavior during estrus cycle

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 398-406

  Gangitano, D ^a,b   Salas, R ^a   Teng, Y ^a   Perez, E ^a   De Biasi, M ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b SAM HOUSTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

5 subunit; Anxiety; Estrous cycle; HPA axis; Nicotinic acetylcholine receptor; Progesterone; Quantitative RT PCR; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NICOTINE; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; SEX HORMONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA5 SUBUNIT, MOUSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CIGARETTE SMOKING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OVARIECTOMY; OVARY CYCLE; PHENOTYPE; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; UPREGULATION; WILD TYPE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; DIESTRUS; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; GENOTYPE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOUSE MUTANT; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

MUS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEPRESSION; DIESTRUS; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; GENOTYPE; HINDLIMB SUSPENSION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROGESTERONE; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION;

EID: 67149136731     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2009.00476.x     Document Type: Article

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