Differences in prefrontal cortex GABA/glutamate ratio after acute restraint stress in rats are associated with specific behavioral and neurobiological patterns

Neuroscience

Volumn 285, Issue , 2015, Pages 155-165

  Drouet, J B ^a   Fauvelle, F ^a   Maunoir Regimbal, S ^a   Fidier, N ^a   Maury, R ^a   Peinnequin, A ^a   Denis, J ^a   Buguet, A ^b   Canini, F ^a,c  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE BIOMÉDICALE DES ARMÉES   (France)

^b Quartier Campement   (Congo)

^c Ecole du Val de Grace   (France)

Author keywords

GABA; Glucocorticoids; Glutamate; Locomotion; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BRAIN PROTEIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CREATINE KINASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYDROXYMETHYLGLUTARYL COENZYME A REDUCTASE KINASE; LACTATE DEHYDROGENASE; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; MESSENGER RNA; NPAS4 PROTEIN; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR RELATED FACTOR 1; PROTEIN C FOS; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ADENYLATE KINASE; GLUTAMIC ACID DERIVATIVE; MTOR PROTEIN, RAT; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXERCISE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADENYLATE KINASE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATES; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84918840245     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.10.058     Document Type: Article

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