Glucocorticoids protect against the delayed behavioral and cellular effects of acute stress on the amygdala

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 466-475

  Rao, Rajnish P ^a   Anilkumar, Shobha ^a   McEwen, Bruce S ^b   Chattarji, Sumantra ^a  

^a TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models; anxiety; basolateral amygdala; dendritic spines; glucocorticoids; posttraumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ACUTE STRESS; ADRENALECTOMY; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN NERVE CELL; DRUG EFFECT; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ADRENALECTOMY; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CORTICOSTERONE; DENDRITIC SPINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84865243377     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2012.04.008     Document Type: Article

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