Pituitary glucocorticoid receptor deletion reduces vulnerability to chronic stress

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 36, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 579-587

  Wagner, Klaus V ^a   Wang, Xiao Dong ^a   Liebl, Claudia ^a   Scharf, Sebastian H ^a   Müller, Marianne B ^a   Schmidt, Mathias V ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic stress; Glucocorticoid receptor; HPA axis; Pituitary; Resilience; Vulnerability

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIFE EVENT; MALE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PHENOTYPE; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENE DELETION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79952043532     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.09.007     Document Type: Article

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