Social defeat stress activates medial amygdala cells that express type 2 corticotropin-releasing factor receptor mRNA

Neuroscience

Volumn 162, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-13

  Fekete, E M ^a,b   Zhao, Y ^a   Li, C ^c   Sabino, V ^a   Vale, W W ^d   Zorrilla, E P ^a  

^a SCRIPPS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

corticotropin releasing factor; CRF2 receptor; lateral septum; medial nucleus of the amygdala; social defeat stress or resident intruder test; ventromedial or paraventricular hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SOCIAL STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENTROMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 67349241951     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.03.078     Document Type: Article

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