Predator threat stress promotes long lasting anxiety-like behaviors and modulates synaptophysin and CB1 receptors expression in brain areas associated with PTSD symptoms

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 533, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 34-38

  Campos, Alline Cristina ^a   Ferreira, Frederico Rogério ^a   da Silva, Wilson Araujo ^a,b,c   Guimarães, Francisco Silveira ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b National Institute of Science and Technology in Stem Cell and Cell Therapy   (Brazil)

^c Center for Cell Therapy and Regional Blood Center   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Animal model; CB1 receptor; Posttraumatic stress; Predator threat; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN; DOWN REGULATION; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDATOR STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; CATS; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEAR; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTOR, CANNABINOID, CB1; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84871689359     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.11.016     Document Type: Article

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