Restraint stress-induced brain activation patterns in two strains of mice differing in their anxiety behaviour

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 213, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 148-154

  O'Mahony, Cliona M ^a   Sweeney, Fabian F ^a,b   Daly, Emma ^a   Dinan, Timothy G ^a,b   Cryan, John F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Acute stress; BALB c; C Fos; C57BL 6; Cingulate cortex; Genetic; Hippocampus; Paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus; Paraventricular thalamic nucleus; Restraint

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BAGG ALBINO MOUSE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; C57BL 6 MOUSE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EXPERIMENTAL MOUSE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BIOSYNTHESIS; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; DECISION MAKING; EXERCISE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PROCEDURES; SPECIES DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED BALB C; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77953962511     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.04.038     Document Type: Article

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