Hypothalamic corticotropin-releasing factor is centrally involved in learning under moderate stress

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1825-1832

  Lucas, Morgan ^a   Chen, Alon ^b   Richter Levin, Gal ^a,c  

^a Institute for the Study of Affective Neuroscience (ISAN)   (Israel)

^b WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

avoidance learning; corticotropin releasing factor; lentivirus; paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus; stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FOOTSHOCK; GENE SILENCING; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MENTAL TASK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; STRESS;

ANIMALS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84880331279     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.82     Document Type: Article

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