Stress or no stress: Mineralocorticoid receptors in the forebrain regulate behavioral adaptation

Neurobiology of Learning and Memory

Volumn 98, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 33-40

  ter Horst, J P ^a   van der Mark, M H ^a   Arp, M ^a   Berger, S ^b   de Kloet, E R ^a   Oitzl, M S ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Behavioral strategy; Corticosterone; Hippocampus; MR mutant mice; Spatial learning

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADAPTATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE INTERACTION; GENOTYPE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; CUES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84863104416     PISSN: 10747427     EISSN: 10959564     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nlm.2012.04.006     Document Type: Article

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