Early life stress and serotonin transporter gene variation interact to affect the transcription of the glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors, and the co-chaperone FKBP5, in the adult rat brain

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue OCT, 2014, Pages 1-11

  van der Doelen, Rick H A ^a   Calabrese, Francesca ^b   Guidotti, Gianluigi ^b   Geenen, Bram ^a   Riva, Marco A ^b   Kozicz, Tamás ^a   Homberg, Judith R ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

Author keywords

Depression; Early life stress; FKBP5; Glucocorticoid receptor; Hippocampus; Medial prefrontal cortex; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Serotonin transporter

Indexed keywords

CHAPERONE; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN 51; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE INACTIVATION; GENE LOCATION; GENETIC VARIABILITY; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROGENY; RAT; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER GENE; STRIA TERMINALIS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; WILD TYPE;

EID: 84907963640     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00355     Document Type: Article

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