Increased Serotonin Transporter Expression Reduces Fear and Recruitment of Parvalbumin Interneurons of the Amygdala

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 3015-3026

  Bocchio, Marco ^a   Fucsina, Giulia ^a   Oikonomidis, Lydia ^a,b   McHugh, Stephen B ^a   Bannerman, David M ^a   Sharp, Trevor ^a   Capogna, Marco ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARVALBUMIN; PROTEIN C FOS; SEROTONIN 2A RECEPTOR; SEROTONIN TRANSPORTER; SLC6A4 PROTEIN, MOUSE;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONDITIONING; DEPOLARIZATION; EX VIVO STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIABILITY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INTERNEURON; MEMORY TEST; MOUSE; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PATCH CLAMP TECHNIQUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; SYNAPTIC INHIBITION; ACTION POTENTIAL; ANIMAL; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; C57BL MOUSE; CATALEPSY; CBA MOUSE; ELECTRIC SHOCK; HEARING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL INHIBITION; PHYSIOLOGY; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUE; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ELECTROSHOCK; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURONS; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, INBRED CBA; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NEURAL INHIBITION; PARVALBUMINS; PATCH-CLAMP TECHNIQUES; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RECEPTOR, SEROTONIN, 5-HT2A; SEROTONIN PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; TISSUE CULTURE TECHNIQUES;

EID: 84947032282     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2015.157     Document Type: Article

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