Inescapable but not escapable stress leads to increased struggling behavior and basolateral amygdala c-fos gene expression in response to subsequent novel stress challenge

Neuroscience

Volumn 170, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 138-148

  Weinberg, M S ^a   Grissom, N ^b,c   Paul, E ^a   Bhatnagar, S ^b   Maier, S F ^a   Spencer, R L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Facilitation; Helplessness; PFC; Sensitization

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; COHORT STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ESCAPE REACTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 77955919927     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.06.052     Document Type: Article

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