Corticotropin-releasing factor infusion into nucleus incertus suppresses medial prefrontal cortical activity and hippocampo-medial prefrontal cortical long-term potentiation

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 2516-2525

  Farooq, Usman ^a,b,c   Rajkumar, Ramamoorthy ^a,b,c   Sukumaran, Shalini ^a,b   Wu, You ^a,b,c   Tan, Wei Hao ^a,b,c   Dawe, Gavin Stewart ^a,b,c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^c Singapore Institute for Neurotechnology (SINAPSE)   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing factor (CRF); Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; Medial prefrontal cortex; Nucleus incertus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS INCERTUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 84882594696     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12242     Document Type: Article

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