Chronic subordinate colony housing paradigm: A mouse model to characterize the consequences of insufficient glucocorticoid signaling

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 6, Issue FEB, 2015, Pages

  Langgartner, Dominik ^a   Füchsl, Andrea M ^a   Uschold Schmidt, Nicole ^b   Slattery, David A ^b   Reber, Stefan O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULM   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Chronic psychosocial stress; Chronic subordinate colony housing; Decreased glucocorticoid signaling; Hypocorticism; Somatic and affective disorders

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID; NORADRENALIN; OXYTOCIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ADRENAL GLAND; ADRENERGIC SYSTEM; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; CHRONIC STRESS; CHRONIC SUBORDINATE COLONY HOUSING; COLON CARCINOGENESIS; DEPRESSION; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; HUMAN; HYPERACTIVITY; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; NONHUMAN; RECEPTOR BINDING; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL STRESS; SUBSTANCE ABUSE; WEIGHT CHANGE;

EID: 84926659273     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2015.00018     Document Type: Review

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