Serotonin deficiency alters susceptibility to the long-term consequences of adverse early life experience

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 53, Issue , 2015, Pages 69-81

  Sachs, Benjamin D ^a   Rodriguiz, Ramona M ^a   Tran, Ha L ^a   Iyer, Akshita ^a   Wetsel, William C ^a   Caron, Marc G ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Early life stress; Neurogenesis; Serotonin

Indexed keywords

DOUBLECORTIN; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROTEIN P11; SEROTONIN; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; TPH2 PROTEIN, MOUSE; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN LEVEL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE EXACERBATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MARE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PROGENY; PUERPERIUM; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STARTLE REFLEX; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE MODEL; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MUTATION; NEWBORN; PATHOLOGICAL REFLEX; PSYCHOLOGY; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEPRESSION, POSTPARTUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; FEMALE; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HIPPOCAMPUS; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MICE; MUTATION; NEUROGENESIS; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2A; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; REFLEX, ABNORMAL; REFLEX, STARTLE; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

EID: 84922799137     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2014.12.019     Document Type: Article

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