Neurocircuitry underlying stress and emotional regulation in animals prenatally exposed to alcohol and subjected to chronic mild stress in adulthood

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Raineki, Charlis ^a   Hellemans, Kim G C ^a,b   Bodnar, Tamara ^a   Lavigne, Katie M ^a,c   Ellis, Linda ^a   Woodward, Todd S ^a,c   Weinberg, Joanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c BC Mental Health and Addictions Research Institute   (Canada)

Author keywords

Amygdala; C fos; Chronic mild stress; Constrained principal component analysis; Hippocampus; Paraventricular nucleus of hypothalamus; Prefrontal cortex; Prenatal alcohol exposure

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOL;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITOMETRY; EMOTIONALITY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS OF HYPOTHALAMUS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RAT; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS;

EID: 84901022422     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2014.00005     Document Type: Article

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