TrkB overexpression in mice buffers against memory deficits and depression-like behavior but not all anxiety-and stress-related symptoms induced by developmental exposure to methylmercury

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue SEP, 2014, Pages

  Karpova, Nina N ^a   Saku Olavi Lindholm, Jesse ^a   Kulesskaya, Natalia ^a   Onishchenko, Natalia ^b   Vahter, Marie ^b   Popova, Dina ^a   Ceccatelli, Sandra ^b   Castrén, Eero ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HELSINKI   (Finland)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Bdnf transcripts; Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Glutathione reductase; Glyoxalase; Hippocampus; Perinatal methylmercury; Truncated TrkB

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; METHYLMERCURY;

ADULT; AMNESIA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BDNF 1; BDNF 2; BDNF 3; BDNF 4; BDNF 6; BDNF 9A; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FEAR; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GLO1 GENE; GLO2 GENE; GSR GENE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; MOUSE; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS; TRKB.T1 GENE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 84908222101     PISSN: 16625153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnbeh.2014.00315     Document Type: Article

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