Exposure to enriched environment restores the mRNA expression of mineralocorticoid and glucocorticoid receptors in the hippocampus and ameliorates depressive-like symptoms in chronically stressed rats

Current Neurovascular Research

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 286-293

  Zhang, Lei ^a   Zhang, Junjian ^a   Sun, Huimin ^a   Liu, Hui ^a   Yang, Ying ^a   Yao, Zhaohui ^a  

^a WUHAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chronic restraint stress; Corticosteroid receptor; Depression; Enriched environment; HPA axis

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 82155197555     PISSN: 15672026     EISSN: 18755739     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/156720211798121025     Document Type: Article

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