Neurotransmitter Systems in a Mild Blast Traumatic Brain Injury Model: Catecholamines and Serotonin

Journal of Neurotrauma

Volumn 32, Issue 16, 2015, Pages 1190-1199

  Kawa, Lizan ^a   Arborelius, Ulf P ^a   Yoshitake, Takashi ^a   Kehr, Jan ^a   Hökfelt, Tomas ^a   Risling, Mårten ^a   Agoston, Denes ^b  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; mood disorder; noradrenaline; PTSD; stress

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; MESSENGER RNA; NEUROTRANSMITTER; NORADRENALIN; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE 2; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; TPH2 PROTEIN, RAT; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BLAST INJURY; BRAIN REGION; CLIMBING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; FORCED SWIM TEST; FOREBRAIN; HIGH PERFORMANCE LIQUID CHROMATOGRAPHY; IMMOBILITY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LOCUS CERULEUS; MALE; MONOAMINERGIC SYSTEM; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PATHOLOGY; RAT; RODENT MODEL; TISSUE LEVEL; TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY; ANIMAL; BRAIN INJURY; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; ENZYMOLOGY; ETIOLOGY; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BLAST INJURIES; BRAIN INJURIES; CATECHOLAMINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DORSAL RAPHE NUCLEUS; LOCUS COERULEUS; MALE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEROTONIN; TRYPTOPHAN HYDROXYLASE; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84938340040     PISSN: 08977151     EISSN: 15579042     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/neu.2014.3669     Document Type: Article

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