Amygdala activation and GABAergic gene expression in hippocampal sub-regions at the interplay of stress and spatial learning

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JAN, 2014, Pages

  Hadad Ophir, Osnat ^a   Albrecht, Anne ^a,b   Stork, Oliver ^b,c   Richter Levin, Gal ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdala; Gene expression; Hippocampus; Interneuron; Morris water maze (MWM); Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 3; NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE HILUS; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GAD65 GENE; GAD67 GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LASER MICRODISSECTION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MENTAL TASK; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SPATIAL LEARNING; STRATUM ORIENS;

EID: 84893023615     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00003     Document Type: Article

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