The serotonin transporter gene and functional and pathological adaptation to environmental variation across the life span

Progress in Neurobiology

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 117-127

  Homberg, Judith R ^a   van den Hove, Daniel L A ^b,c  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Early life; Gene environment; HPA axis; Human; Rodent; Serotonin transporter; Stress

Indexed keywords

5 HYDROXYMETHYLCYTOSINE; AMPA RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYDROCORTISONE; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

ADAPTATION; ADULTHOOD; AGGRESSION; ALLELE; ANXIETY; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; COGNITION; DEPRESSION; DNA POLYMORPHISM; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EMOTION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPIGENETICS; EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION; GENE ACTIVITY; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HAPLORHINI; HETEROZYGOTE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOZYGOTE; HUMAN; HYPERALGESIA; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; KNOCKOUT GENE; LIFESPAN; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MATERNAL CARE; META ANALYSIS (TOPIC); NERVOUSNESS; NEUROSIS; NONHUMAN; PANIC; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHIC LOCUS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; REM SLEEP; REVIEW; RODENT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL STRESS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, AMNESTIC, COGNITIVE DISORDERS; ENVIRONMENT; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84867899489     PISSN: 03010082     EISSN: 18735118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pneurobio.2012.08.003     Document Type: Review

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