Chronic immobilization stress induces anxiety- and depression-like behaviors and decreases transthyretin in the mouse cortex

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 461, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 121-125

  Joo, Yeon ^a   Choi, Kyung Mi ^a   Lee, Young Hyurk ^a   Kim, Gyeongwha ^a   Lee, Dong Hoon ^a   Roh, Gu Seob ^a   Kang, Sang Soo ^a   Cho, Gyeong Jae ^a   Choi, Wan Sung ^a   Kim, Hyun Joon ^a  

^a Gyeongsang National University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Chronic stress; Cortical gene expression; Depression; Transthyretin

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; PREALBUMIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN LEVEL; CHOROID PLEXUS; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MARKER; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEPRESSION; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PREALBUMIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67649654100     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.06.025     Document Type: Article

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