Altered expression of glucocorticoid receptor and corticotropin-releasing factor in the central amygdala in response to elevated corticosterone

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 380-385

  Tran, Lee ^a   Greenwood Van Meerveld, Beverley ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; CRF receptors; Glucocorticoids; HCN channels; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

CATION CHANNEL; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYPERPOLARIZATION ACTIVATED CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE GATED CATION CHANNEL; MESSENGER RNA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR GENE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1 GENE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2 GENE; DOWN REGULATION; EVOKED RESPONSE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE LOCATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RECEPTOR GENE;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CYCLIC NUCLEOTIDE-GATED CATION CHANNELS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LINEAR MODELS; MALE; POTASSIUM CHANNELS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864417860     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.07.010     Document Type: Article

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