Animal models of stress vulnerability and resilience in translational research

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 159-165

  Scharf, Sebastian H ^a   Schmidt, Mathias V ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Animal models; Animals; Breeding lines; Depression; Environment; Gene environment interaction; Knockout; KO; Mismatch; Plasticity; Programming; Readouts; Risk; Risk factors; Social stress; Stress; Stress resilience; Stress vulnerability; Subpopulations; Transgenic; Translational research; Validity

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMIC ACID; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 1;

BDNF GENE; BREEDING; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORT GENE; EPIGENETICS; FKBP5 GENE; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENETIC DIFFERENCE; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PHENOTYPE; REVIEW; STRESS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH; VGLUT1 GENE; VGLUT2 GENE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; MENTAL STRESS; MOUSE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RISK FACTOR; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ANIMALS; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MODELS, ANIMAL; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; RISK FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84860612938     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-012-0256-0     Document Type: Review

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