Sex differences in depressive, anxious behaviors and hippocampal transcript levels in a genetic rat model

Genes, Brain and Behavior

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 695-704

  Mehta, N S ^a,b   Wang, L ^a,c   Redei, E E ^a,b  

^a Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences ^*  (United States)

^b The Norman and Helen Asher Center for the Study of Depressive Disorders   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety behavior; Comorbidity; Depression animal models; Early adolescence; FST; Gene expression; Hippocampus; OFT; RT qPCR; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

SEX HORMONE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BREEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC ANALYSIS; GONAD; HIPPOCAMPUS; INBRED RAT STRAIN; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX CHROMOSOME; SEX DIFFERENCE; TRANSCRIPTION INITIATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANXIETY BEHAVIOR; COMORBIDITY; DEPRESSION ANIMAL MODELS; EARLY ADOLESCENCE; FST; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; OFT; RT-QPCR; SEX DIFFERENCES;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER, MAJOR; FEMALE; GONADAL STEROID HORMONES; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 84884980664     PISSN: 16011848     EISSN: 1601183X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/gbb.12063     Document Type: Article

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