Differential Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor Expression in Limbic Brain Regions Following Social Defeat of Territorial Aggression

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 125, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 911-920

  Taylor, Stacie L ^a   Stanek, Lisa M ^b   Ressler, Kerry J ^b   Huhman, Kim L ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Hippocampus; Plasticity; Stress; Submission

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DEFEAT; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRIA TERMINALIS; SYRIAN HAMSTER;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TERRITORIALITY;

EID: 83055188705     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0026172     Document Type: Article

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