Chronic social defeat up-regulates expression of the serotonin transporter in rat dorsal raphe nucleus and projection regions in a glucocorticoid-dependent manner

Journal of Neurochemistry

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 1054-1068

  Zhang, Jia ^a   Fan, Yan ^a   Li, Ying ^a   Zhu, Hobart ^a   Wang, Liang ^b   Zhu, Meng Yang ^a  

^a East Tennessee State University   (United States)

^b EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

chronic social defeat; corticosteroid receptors; corticosterone; raphe nuclei; rat brain; serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID RECEPTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHONIC SOCIAL DEFEAT; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; DEPRESSION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FOREBRAIN; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE TEST; MALE; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; SEROTONINERGIC SYSTEM; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORTICOSTERONE; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; NEURAL PATHWAYS; RAPHE NUCLEI; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UP-REGULATION;

RATTUS;

EID: 84870581182     PISSN: 00223042     EISSN: 14714159     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jnc.12055     Document Type: Article

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