Early-life stress-induced anxiety-related behavior in adult mice partially requires forebrain corticotropin-releasing hormone receptor 1

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 2360-2367

  Wang, Xiao Dong ^a   Labermaier, Christiana ^a   Holsboer, Florian ^a   Wurst, Wolfgang ^a,b,c,d   Deussing, Jan M ^a   Müller, Marianne B ^a   Schmidt, Mathias V ^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; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Corticotropin releasing hormone receptor 1; Early life stress

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FOREBRAIN; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WEIGHT GAIN; WILD TYPE;

AGE OF ONSET; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROSENCEPHALON; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 84864800644     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2012.08148.x     Document Type: Article

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