Distribution of Fos-immunoreactive cells in rat forebrain and midbrain following social defeat stress and diazepam treatment

Neuroscience

Volumn 272, Issue , 2014, Pages 34-57

  Lkhagvasuren, B ^a   Oka, T ^a   Nakamura, Y ^b   Hayashi, H ^c   Sudo, N ^a   Nakamura, K ^b,d  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^d JAPAN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Emotion; Mapping; Psychogenic fever; Psychological stress induced hyperthermia; Psychosocial stress; Stress circuit

Indexed keywords

DIAZEPAM; PROTEIN FOS; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; AUTONOMIC STRESS RESPONSE; BODY TEMPERATURE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMUS; DRUG EFFECT; EMOTION; FOREBRAIN; HABENULA; HYPERTHERMIA; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS VENTROMEDIAL NUCLEUS; LATERAL PREOPTIC AREA; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAGNOCELLULAR LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MESENCEPHALON; MOTOR CORTEX; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; PARVICELLULAR PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PERIFORNICAL NUCLEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM PELLUCIDUM; SOCIAL STRESS; STRESS; THALAMUS; TUBEROMAMMILLARY NUCLEUS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG THERAPY; GENE EXPRESSION; LONG EVANS RAT; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DIAZEPAM; GENE EXPRESSION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; PROSENCEPHALON; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84900872666     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.04.047     Document Type: Article

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