Mouse models of the 5-HTTLPR × stress risk factor for depression

Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages 59-72

  Carola, Valeria ^a,b   Gross, Cornelius ^c  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c EUROPEAN MOLECULAR BIOLOGY LABORATORY EMBL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Anxiety depression; Early adult stress risk factor; Gene by environment; Mouse models; Serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SLC6A4 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; DEPRESSION; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; FRONTAL CORTEX; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; GENE TARGETING; GENETIC POLYMORPHISM; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; ANIMAL; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; MENTAL STRESS; RISK FACTOR;

ANIMALS; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HUMANS; MICE; RISK FACTORS; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84878362923     PISSN: 18663370     EISSN: 18663389     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/7854_2011_190     Document Type: Article

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