Contrasting hippocampal and amygdalar expression of genes related to neural plasticity during escape from social aggression

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 107, Issue 5, 2012, Pages 670-679

  Arendt, David H ^a,b   Smith, Justin P ^a,b   Bastida, Christel C ^a   Prasad, Maneeshi S ^c   Oliver, Kevin D ^a   Eyster, Kathleen M ^b   Summers, Tangi R ^a,b   Delville, Yvon ^d   Summers, Cliff H ^a  

^a W O Farber Center for Civic Leadership   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA   (United States)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggression; BDNF; GluR1; Learned escape; Social stress; TrKB

Indexed keywords

ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; MESSENGER RNA;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COPING BEHAVIOR; ESCAPE BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMSTER; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS;

AGGRESSION; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CRICETINAE; ESCAPE REACTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROCORTISONE; MALE; MESOCRICETUS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84870722945     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.03.005     Document Type: Article

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