A novel role for brain interleukin-6: Facilitation of cognitive flexibility in rat orbitofrontal cortex

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 953-962

  Donegan, Jennifer J ^a   Girotti, Milena ^a   Weinberg, Marc S ^b   Morilak, David A ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Cognitive flexibility; Depression; Interleukin 6; JAK STAT; Orbitofrontal cortex; Reversal learning

Indexed keywords

INTERLEUKIN 6; JANUS KINASE; STAT PROTEIN;

ADENO ASSOCIATED VIRUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHRONIC STRESS; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; GENE TARGETING; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; NONHUMAN; ORBITAL CORTEX; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

COGNITIVE FLEXIBILITY; DEPRESSION; INTERLEUKIN-6; JAK/STAT; ORBITOFRONTAL CORTEX; REVERSAL LEARNING;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; HUMANS; INTERLEUKIN-6; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84892410541     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3968-13.2014     Document Type: Article

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