High susceptibility to chronic social stress is associated with a depression-like phenotype

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 35, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 635-643

  Schmidt, M V ^a   Scharf, S H ^a   Sterlemann, V ^a   Ganea, K ^a   Liebl, C ^a   Holsboer, F ^a   Muller M B ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Depression; HPA axis; Resilience; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN TISSUE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOCIAL STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; ORGAN SIZE; PHENOTYPE; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77952551512     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2009.10.002     Document Type: Article

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