Predator exposure/psychosocial stress animal model of post-traumatic stress disorder modulates neurotransmitters in the rat hippocampus and prefrontal cortex

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2014, Pages

  Wilson, C Brad ^a   Ebenezer, Philip J ^a   McLaughlin, Leslie D ^a   Francis, Joseph ^a  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

3,4 DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; 5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID; DOPAMINE; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

5 HYDROXYINDOLEACETIC ACID BRAIN LEVEL; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDATOR STRESS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SEROTONIN BLOOD LEVEL;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ANIMALS; CATS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOMOVANILLIC ACID; MALE; NEUROTRANSMITTER AGENTS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PREDATORY BEHAVIOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84895875564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089104     Document Type: Article

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