Susceptibility to PTSD-like behavior is mediated by corticotropin-releasing factor receptor type 2 levels in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 20, 2012, Pages 6906-6916

  Lebow, Maya ^a   Neufeld Cohen, Adi ^a   Kuperman, Yael ^a   Tsoory, Michael ^a   Gil, Shosh ^a   Chen, Alon ^a  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; HISTONE DEACETYLASE 5; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; GENE EXPRESSION; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; IMMUNOHISTOLOGY; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; RISK ASSESSMENT; STARTLE REFLEX; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; HISTONE DEACETYLASES; MICE; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEPTAL NUCLEI; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84861148331     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4012-11.2012     Document Type: Article

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