BDNF moderates early environmental risk factors for anxiety in mouse

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 379-389

  Carola, Valeria ^a,b   Gross, Cornelius ^a  

^a EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

^b IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiety; BDNF; Gene by environment interaction; Maternal behavior; Mice; Rearing environment

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HETEROZYGOSITY; MALE; MATERNAL CARE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NULL ALLELE; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MUTATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 77953006562     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1601-183X.2010.00572.x     Document Type: Article

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