Evidence for involvement of a limbic paraventricular hypothalamic inhibitory network in hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis adaptations to repeated stress

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 523, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 2769-2787

  Radley, Jason J ^a   Sawchenko, Paul E ^b  

^a E11 SSH   (United States)

^b SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nuclei of the stria terminalis; Chronic stress; GABAergic neurons; Hippocampus; HPA axis; Hypothalamus; Medial prefrontal cortex; Paraventricular nucleus; Ventral subiculum

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MESSENGER RNA; 2-HYDROXY-4,4'-DIAMIDINOSTILBENE, METHANESULFONATE SALT; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; PROTEIN C FOS; STILBAMIDINE;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FOREBRAIN; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GAD GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HABITUATION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SENSORY NERVE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PHYSIOLOGY; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; GABAERGIC NEURONS; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEPTAL NUCLEI; STILBAMIDINES; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84944274975     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23815     Document Type: Article

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