Hippocampal biomarkers of fear memory in an animal model of generalized anxiety disorder

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 263, Issue , 2014, Pages 34-45

  Dias, Gisele Pereira ^a,b   Bevilaqua, Mário Cesar do Nascimento ^a,c   Da Luz, Anna Claudia Domingos Silveira ^a   Fleming, Renata Lopes ^a   De Carvalho, Lítia Alves ^a   Cocks, Graham ^b   Beckman, Danielle ^a   Hosken, Lucas Costa ^a   De Sant'Anna Machado, William ^a   Corrêa e Castro, Ana Carolina ^a   Mousovich Neto, Felippe ^a   De Castro Gomes, Vítor ^d,e   Bastos, Gilmara de Nazareth Tavares ^f   Kubrusly, Regina Célia Cussa ^g   Da Costa, Vânia Maria Corrêa ^a   Srivastava, Deepak ^b   Landeira Fernandez, Jesus ^d,h   Nardi, Antonio Egidio ^a   Thuret, Sandrine ^b   Gardino, Patricia Franca ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c Universidade Castelo Branco   (Brazil)

^d PONTIFICAL CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF RIO DE JANEIRO   (Brazil)

^e UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^f FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF PARÁ   (Brazil)

^g FLUMINENSE FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

^h ESTÁCIO DE SÁ UNIVERSITY   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Adult hippocampal neurogenesis; Anxiety; BDNF; Dendritic arborization; Dendritic spines; Fear memory

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BROXURIDINE; CORTICOSTERONE; DOUBLECORTIN; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY KI 67;

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RELEASE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN TISSUE; CARIOCA HIGH CONDITIONED FREEZING RAT; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENDRITIC CELL; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; FEAR; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBLAST; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PASSIVE AVOIDANCE TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; TISSUE STRUCTURE; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANXIETY DISORDER; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISEASE MODEL; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NEURAL STEM CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY DISORDERS; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEAR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURAL STEM CELLS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SPACE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84896719700     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.01.012     Document Type: Article

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