Urocortin 3 modulates social discrimination abilities via corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor type 2

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 30, Issue 27, 2010, Pages 9103-9116

  Deussing, Jan M ^a   Breu, Johannes ^a   Kühne, Claudia ^b   Kallnik, Magdalena ^b   Bunck, Mirjam ^a   Glasl, Lisa ^b   Yen, Yi Chun ^a   Schmidt, Mathias V ^a   Zurmühlen, Regine ^a   Vogl, Annette M ^a   Gailus Durner, Valérie ^b   Fuchs, Helmut ^b   Hölter, Sabine M ^b   Wotjak, Carsten T ^a   Landgraf, Rainer ^a   De Angelis, Martin Hrabé ^b,c   Holsboer, Florian ^a   Wurst, Wolfgang ^a,b,c,d  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; UROCORTIN III;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; HETEROZYGOSITY; HOMOZYGOSITY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MEMORY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPORTER GENE; SOCIAL DISCRIMINATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); FEAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; NEURONS; ODORS; OLFACTORY PATHWAYS; PERCEPTION; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STARTLE REACTION; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; SWIMMING; UROCORTINS;

EID: 77954515779     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1049-10.2010     Document Type: Article

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