Dysregulated hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis function contributes to altered endocrine and neurobehavioral responses to acute stress

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Kinlein, Scott A ^a   Wilson, Christopher D ^a   Karatsoreos, Ilia N ^a  

^a WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Allostatic load; C Fos; Corticosterone; Hippocampus; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; PROTEIN C FOS;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CRH GENE; ENDOCRINE DISEASE; FORCED SWIM TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; GROOMING; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE POTENTIAL; NEUROLOGIC DISEASE; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; REARING;

EID: 84926614900     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00031     Document Type: Article

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