Physical stress differs from psychosocial stress in the pattern and time-course of behavioral responses, serum corticosterone and expression of plasticity-related genes in the rat

Stress

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 412-425

  Kavushansky, Alexandra ^a   Ben Shachar, Dorit ^a   Richter Levin, Gal ^b   Klein, Ehud ^a  

^a RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Corticosterone; Depression related behavior; Plasticity related genes; Psychophysical stress; Psychosocial stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; LAMININ; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE L1; NEUROMODULIN; PROTEIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; ELECTRIC SHOCK; FOOTSHOCK; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PHYSICAL STRESS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; SOCIAL STRESS;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSE ELEMENT-BINDING PROTEIN; DEPRESSION; ELECTROSHOCK; GAP-43 PROTEIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; LAMININ; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULE L1; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 70549094416     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253890802556081     Document Type: Article

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