Glucocorticoid receptor deletion from the dorsal raphé nucleus of mice reduces dysphoria-like behavior and impairs hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenocortical axis feedback inhibition

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1671-1681

  Vincent, Melanie Y ^a   Jacobson, Lauren ^a  

^a ALBANY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Corticosterone; Depression; Serotonin; Stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DYSPHORIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY; MOUSE; NEGATIVE FEEDBACK; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DETERMINATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; TAIL SUSPENSION TEST; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; BLOOD; C57BL MOUSE; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; GENETICS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; TASTE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEEDBACK, PHYSIOLOGICAL; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUCROSE; TASTE PERCEPTION;

EID: 84900819531     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12538     Document Type: Article

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