Differential susceptibility to chronic social defeat stress relates to the number of Dnmt3a-immunoreactive neurons in the hippocampal dentate gyrus

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 51, Issue , 2015, Pages 547-556

  Hammels, Caroline ^a   Prickaerts, Jos ^a   Kenis, Gunter ^a   Vanmierlo, Tim ^a,b   Fischer, Maximilian ^a   Steinbusch, Harry W M ^a   van Os, Jim ^a,c   van den Hove, Daniel L A ^a,d   Rutten, Bart P F ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b HASSELT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^c KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DNA methylation; Dnmt3a; Epigenetics; Neurogenesis; Resilience; Social defeat

Indexed keywords

CELL NUCLEUS ANTIGEN; CORTICOSTERONE; DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DOUBLECORTIN; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT; CELL DENSITY; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; DNA METHYLATION; DNMT3A TYPE II CELL; EPIGENETICS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SOCIAL STRESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DNA METHYLATION; DOMINANCE-SUBORDINATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84920594898     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.09.021     Document Type: Article

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