Early-life forebrain glucocorticoid receptor overexpression increases anxiety behavior and cocaine sensitization

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 71, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 224-231

  Wei, Qiang ^a   Fentress, Hugh M ^a   Hoversten, Mary T ^a   Zhang, Limei ^a   Hebda Bauer, Elaine K ^a   Watson, Stanley J ^a,b   Seasholtz, Audrey F ^a,c   Akil, Huda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN HEALTH SYSTEM   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; cocaine; early life; forebrain; glucocorticoid receptor; sensitization

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; COCAINE DEPENDENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DRUG SENSITIZATION; EMOTIONAL STABILITY; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; MALE; MENTAL INSTABILITY; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; COCAINE; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); DENTATE GYRUS; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84855427150     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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