Stress-related serotonergic systems: Implications for symptomatology of anxiety and affective disorders

Cellular and Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 695-708

  Hale, Matthew W ^a   Shekhar, Anantha ^b   Lowry, Christopher A ^c  

^a LA TROBE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

5 HT; 5 hydroxytryptamine; Anatomy; Dorsal raphe nucleus; Hodology; Serotonin; Topography

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; PROTEIN C FOS; SEROTONIN; UROCORTIN II;

ANTIDEPRESSANT ACTIVITY; ANXIETY DISORDER; CAUDAL DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; CELL ACTIVATION; CELL FUNCTION; CELL INTERACTION; CELL STIMULATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; GENETIC LINE; HUMAN; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; INTERFASCICULAR DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; MEDIAN RAPHE NUCLEUS; MENTAL STRESS; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVIEW; SEROTONIN RELEASE; SEROTONINERGIC NERVE CELL; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; STRIA TERMINALIS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THERMAL STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CELL LINEAGE; HUMANS; MOOD DISORDERS; SEROTONERGIC NEURONS; SEROTONIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84864682104     PISSN: 02724340     EISSN: 15736830     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10571-012-9827-1     Document Type: Review

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