Stress-induced activity in the locus coeruleus is not sensitive to stressor controllability

Brain Research

Volumn 1285, Issue , 2009, Pages 109-118

  McDevitt, Ross A ^a,b   Szot, Patricia ^c   Baratta, Michael V ^d   Bland, Sondra T ^d   White, Sylvia S ^c   Maier, Steven F ^d   Neumaier, John F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c VA PUGET SOUND HEALTH CARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

c fos; In situ hybridization; Learned helplessness; Norepinephrine; Stress; Tyrosine hydroxylase

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NORADRENALIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN RELEASE; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK FACTOR; STRESS; STRESSOR CONTROLLABILITY;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEAR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; UP-REGULATION; VOLITION;

RATTUS;

EID: 67651147943     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.06.017     Document Type: Article

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