Sex differences in stress-induced social withdrawal: Role of brain derived neurotrophic factor in the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Greenberg, Gian D ^a,b   Laman Maharg, Abigail ^a,b   Campi, Katharine L ^a   Voigt, Heather ^a   Orr, Veronica N ^a   Schaal, Leslie ^a   Trainor, Brian C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

BDNF; BNST; Dose; Sex; Social defeat; SSRI

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SERTRALINE;

ACUTE DRUG ADMINISTRATION; ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BED NUCLEUS OF THE STRIA TERMINALIS; CHRONIC DRUG ADMINISTRATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; FEMALE; LOW DRUG DOSE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PSYCHOSOCIAL WITHDRAWAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRESS; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 84892164346     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00223     Document Type: Article

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