Positive environmental modification of depressive phenotype and abnormal hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis activity in female C57BL/6J mice during abstinence from chronic ethanol consumption

Frontiers in Pharmacology

Volumn 4 JUL, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Pang, Terence Y ^a   Du, Xin ^a   Catchlove, William A ^a   Renoir, Thibault ^a   Lawrence, Andrew J ^a   Hannan, Anthony J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Abstinence; Alcohol; Depression; Dexamethasone; Environmental enrichment; GR; HPA axis; Pomc1

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; SACCHARIN; WATER;

ADRENAL GLAND; ALCOHOL ABSTINENCE; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; DEXAMETHASONE SUPPRESSION TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; TASTE PREFERENCE; ADDICTION; ALCOHOLISM; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; POMC1 GENE; SOCIAL ASPECT;

EID: 84883027167     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16639812     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphar.2013.00093     Document Type: Article

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