Viral depletion of VTA BDNF in rats modulates social behavior, consequences of intermittent social defeat stress, and long-term weight regulation

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 502, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 192-196

  Fanous, Sanya ^a,b,e   Terwilliger, Ernest F ^d   Hammer Jr , Ronald P ^a,b,c   Nikulina, Ella M ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON DRUG ABUSE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Dopamine; Feeding; Mesolimbic; Ventral tegmental area; Weight

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; PARVOVIRUS VECTOR; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEPLETION; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRESS; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM; WEIGHT CONTROL;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DEPENDOVIRUS; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENETIC VECTORS; LONG-TERM CARE; MALE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 80052343534     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2011.07.043     Document Type: Article

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