Impaired hippocampal neuroligin-2 function by chronic stress or synthetic peptide treatment is linked to social deficits and increased aggression

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1148-1158

  Van Der Kooij, Michael A ^a   Fantin, Martina ^a   Kraev, Igor ^b   Korshunova, Irina ^c   Grosse, Jocelyn ^a   Zanoletti, Olivia ^a   Guirado, Ramon ^d   Garcia Mompó, Clara ^d   Nacher, Juan ^d   Stewart, Michael G ^b   Berezin, Vladimir ^c   Sandi, Carmen ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^d UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

aggression; chronic restraint stress; hippocampus; neuroligin; sociability

Indexed keywords

NEUREXIN; NEUROLIGIN; NEUROLIGIN 1; NEUROLIGIN 2; SYNTHETIC PEPTIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; CELL SURFACE RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE PROTEIN; NEUREXIN 1 PROTEIN, RAT; PEPTIDE;

ADULTHOOD; AGGRESSION; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FOLLOW UP; FRONTAL CORTEX; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN PROTEIN INTERACTION; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STRATUM LACUNOSUM MOLECULARE; STRATUM PYRAMIDALE; STRATUM RADIATUM; SYNAPSE; WEIGHT GAIN; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; BLOOD; CELL CULTURE; CHRONIC DISEASE; EXERCISE; GENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NEURITE; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WISTAR RAT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELLS, CULTURED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CORTICOSTERONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURITES; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; PEPTIDES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, CELL SURFACE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84896397640     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2013.315     Document Type: Article

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