Differential activation of the prefrontal cortex and amygdala following psychological stress and colorectal distension in the maternally separated rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 267, Issue , 2014, Pages 252-262

  Felice, V D ^a,b   Gibney, S M ^b   Gosselin, R D ^b   Dinan, T G ^a   O'Mahony, S M ^a,b   Cryan, J F ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE CORK   (Ireland)

Author keywords

C fos; Colorectal distension; Corticoamygdalar system; Maternal separation; Neuronal activation; Stress

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); COLORECTAL DISTENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTESTINE DISTENSION; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MENTAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; COLON; DISEASE MODEL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VISCERAL PAIN;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COLON; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 84897371970     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.01.064     Document Type: Article

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