Depression-like behaviour in mice is associated with disrupted circadian rhythms in nucleus accumbens and periaqueductal grey

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 43, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 1309-1320

  Landgraf, Dominic ^a,b   Long, Jaimie E ^a,b   Welsh, David K ^a,b  

^a VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^b San Diego   (United States)

Author keywords

Circadian clock; Learned helplessness; Major depressive disorder; Organotypic explants; PER2::LUC

Indexed keywords

LUCIFERASE; PER2 PROTEIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC SUSCEPTIBILITY; IN VITRO STUDY; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS TEST; LUC GENE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PER2 GENE; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY MATTER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; AFFECT; ANIMAL; BRAIN; C57BL MOUSE; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MENTAL STRESS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; TRANSGENIC MOUSE;

AFFECT; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; DEPRESSION; DEPRESSIVE DISORDER; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, TRANSGENIC; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERIAQUEDUCTAL GRAY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84948822968     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.13085     Document Type: Article

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