Environmental enrichment modulates glucocorticoid receptor expression and reduces anxiety in Indian field male mouse Mus booduga through up-regulation of microRNA-124a

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 199, Issue , 2014, Pages 26-32

  Durairaj, Ragu Varman ^a   Koilmani, Emmanuvel Rajan ^a  

^a BHARATHIDASAN UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Enriched condition; Glucocorticoid receptor; Light dark box; MiR 124a

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; DICER; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MICRORNA; MICRORNA 124A; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGION; AGO 2 GENE; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DICER GENE; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; MUS BOODUGA; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; UPREGULATION;

ANXIETY; ENRICHED CONDITION; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; LIGHT/DARK BOX; MIR-124A;

3' UNTRANSLATED REGIONS; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DARKNESS; ENVIRONMENT; HOUSING, ANIMAL; INDIA; MALE; MICE; MICRORNAS; PROTEIN BINDING; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RIBONUCLEASE III; RNA, MESSENGER; UP-REGULATION;

EID: 84893463517     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2014.01.005     Document Type: Article

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