Estrogen receptor beta regulates the expression of tryptophan-hydroxylase 2 mRNA within serotonergic neurons of the rat dorsal raphe nuclei

Neuroscience

Volumn 163, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 705-718

  Donner, N ^a   Handa, R J ^a,b  

^a Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HT; anxiety; depression; estradiol; raphe; TPH

Indexed keywords

DIARYLPROPIONITRILE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; MESSENGER RNA; SELECTIVE ESTROGEN RECEPTOR MODULATOR; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE 2; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HOPELESSNESS; IMPLANT; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MAZE TEST; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; OVARIECTOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE; STRESS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DEPRESSION; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR BETA; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; NITRILES; OVARIECTOMY; PROPIONATES; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 69249214037     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.06.046     Document Type: Article

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