Anxiety, Stress, and Fear Response in Mice with Reduced Endocannabinoid Levels

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 858-868

  Jenniches, Imke ^a   Ternes, Svenja ^a   Albayram, Onder ^a   Otte, David M ^a   Bach, Karsten ^a   Bindila, Laura ^b   Michel, Kerstin ^a   Lutz, Beat ^b   Bilkei Gorzo, Andras ^a   Zimmer, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cannabinoids; Dagla; Depression; Fear extinction; Stress

Indexed keywords

2 ARACHIDONOYLGLYCEROL; ANANDAMIDE; BROXURIDINE; CANNABINOID 1 RECEPTOR; DIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE ALPHA; ENDOCANNABINOID; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEAR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIGHT-DARK TEST; MALE; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; STRESS; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; COHORT ANALYSIS; DEFICIENCY; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHYSIOLOGY; REINFORCEMENT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; COHORT STUDIES; ENDOCANNABINOIDS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; LIPOPROTEIN LIPASE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROGENESIS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84929094440     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.03.033     Document Type: Article

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