Oxytocin regulates stress-induced Crf gene transcription through creb-regulated transcription coactivator 3

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 35, 2015, Pages 12248-12260

  Jurek, Benjamin ^a   Slattery, David A ^a   Hiraoka, Yuichi ^b   Liu, Ying ^c   Nishimori, Katsuhiko ^b   Aguilera, Greti ^c   Neumann, Inga D ^a   Van Den Burg, Erwin H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Crf; CRTC3 TORC3; Intracellular signaling; Oxytocin receptor; Stress response

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; OXYTOCIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; FORSKOLIN; OXYTOCIC AGENT; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN, TRI-GLY-; THROMBOPLASTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHROMATIN IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRF GENE; DEPTH PERCEPTION; EMBRYO; FEMALE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE TRANSLOCATION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PATTERN RECOGNITION; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; STRESS; VISUAL STIMULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; CELL CULTURE; CYTOLOGY; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG THERAPY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CELLS, CULTURED; COLFORSIN; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CREB-BINDING PROTEIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; OXYTOCICS; OXYTOCIN; PROTEIN TRANSPORT; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; THROMBOPLASTIN;

EID: 84940944796     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1345-14.2015     Document Type: Article

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