Social isolation produces anxiety-like behaviors and changes PSD-95 levels in the forebrain

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 514, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 27-30

  Zhang, Yong ^a   Zu, Xuyu ^b   Luo, Weishi ^a   Yang, Hongwei ^a   Luo, Guoxuan ^a   Zhang, Mengxia ^a   Tang, Shengsong ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CHINA   (China)

^b GUANGDONG SECOND PROVINCIAL GENERAL HOSPITAL   (China)

^c HUNAN UNIVERSITY OF ARTS AND SCIENCE   (China)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Isolation rearing; Novelty induced hypophagia; PSD 95; Synapse

Indexed keywords

BRAIN PROTEIN; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOPHAGIA; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EATING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GUANYLATE KINASE; MALE; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PROSENCEPHALON; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 84862829510     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.02.043     Document Type: Article

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