Repeated electroconvulsive seizure treatment in rats reduces inducibility of early growth response genes and hyperactivity in response to cocaine administration

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 1014-1021

  Park, Hong Geun ^a,b   Kim, Se Hyun ^a,b   Kim, Han Soo ^b   Ahn, Yong Min ^a   Kang, Ung Gu ^a   Kim, Yong Sik ^a  

^a Seoul National University College of Medicine   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University Hospital   (South Korea)

Author keywords

C fos; Egr; Electroconvulsive therapy; Immediate early gene; Psychostimulants

Indexed keywords

MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE 1 GENE; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE 2 GENE; ELECTROCONVULSIVE THERAPY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE; GENE ACTIVATION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPERACTIVITY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; RAT; RETREATMENT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TREATMENT RESPONSE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; CARRIER PROTEINS; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; COCAINE; EARLY GROWTH RESPONSE TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ELECTROSHOCK; ETHER-A-GO-GO POTASSIUM CHANNELS; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; GENES, FOS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOSPHORYLATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 79956002224     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: 18784216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2011.02.004     Document Type: Article

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