The anxiolytic effect of environmental enrichment is mediated via amygdalar CRF receptor type 1

Molecular Psychiatry

Volumn 15, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 905-917

  Sztainberg, Y ^a,b   Kuperman, Y ^a   Tsoory, M ^a   Lebow, M ^a   Chen, A ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

amygdala; anxiety; CRF receptor type 1; CRFR1 knockdown; environmental enrichment; lentiviruses

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; LENTIVIRUS VECTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HOUSING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RNA INTERFERENCE; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

ADRENAL CORTEX HORMONES; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT DESIGN; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LENTIVIRUS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 77956440516     PISSN: 13594184     EISSN: 14765578     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/mp.2009.151     Document Type: Article

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