Voluntary exercise offers anxiolytic potential and amplifies galanin gene expression in the locus coeruleus of the rat

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 233, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 191-200

  Sciolino, Natale R ^a   Dishman, Rodney K ^b   Holmes, Philip V ^a,b  

^a Interdisciplinary Neuroscience Program   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Exercise; Galanin; Locus coeruleus; Stress; Wheel running

Indexed keywords

BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; BETA CARBOLINE; GALANIN; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL BETA CARBOLINE 3 CARBOXAMIDE; PREPROGALANIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEFENSIVE BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; EXERCISE TEST; GALANIN GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMOBILIZATION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REPEAT PROCEDURE; RNA ANALYSIS; RUNNING; SITTING; UPREGULATION; VOLUNTARY EXERCISE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BODY WEIGHT; CARBOLINES; DEFENSE MECHANISMS; GABA ANTAGONISTS; GALANIN; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; LOCOMOTION; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84861733861     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.05.001     Document Type: Article

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