Assessing behavioural effects of chronic HPA axis activation using conditional CRH-overexpressing mice

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 815-828

  Dedic, Nina ^a,b   Touma, Chadi ^a   Romanowski, Cristoph P ^a   Schieven, Marcel ^a   Kühne, Claudia ^a   Ableitner, Martin ^a   Lu, Ailing ^a   Holsboer, Florian ^a   Wurst, Wolfgang ^b,c,d   Kimura, Mayumi ^a   Deussing, Jan M ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d GERMAN CENTER FOR NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES DZNE   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety related behaviour; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis; Mouse model; Overexpression; Stress coping

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CUSHING DISEASE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENZYME ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS INTERMEDIATE LOBE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; SLEEP, REM;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84863986432     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: 15736830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-011-9784-0     Document Type: Article

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