Early Adversity and Serotonin Transporter Genotype Interact With Hippocampal Glucocorticoid Receptor mRNA Expression, Corticosterone, and Behavior in Adult Male Rats

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 150-160

  Belay, Hiwote ^a   Burton, Christie L ^a   Lovic, Vedran ^a   Meaney, Michael J ^b   Sokolowski, Marla ^c   Fleming, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c Program in Maternal Adversity Vulnerability and Neurodevelopment (MAVAN) Project   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic startle; Glucocorticoid receptor; HPA axis; Prenatal stress; Rat maternal separation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE INTERACTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LICKING; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL STRESS; PRENATAL STRESS; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SENSORY GATING; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79954502387     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0022891     Document Type: Article

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