Sex differences in nucleus accumbens transcriptome profiles associated with susceptibility versus resilience to subchronic variable stress

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 50, 2015, Pages 16362-16376

  Hodes, Georgia E ^a   Pfau, Madeline L ^a   Purushothaman, Immanuel ^a   Francisca Ahn, H ^a   Golden, Sam A ^a   Christoffel, Daniel J ^a   Magida, Jane ^a   Brancato, Anna ^a,e   Takahashi, Aki ^a,b   Flanigan, Meghan E ^a   Ménard, Caroline ^a   Aleyasin, Hossein ^a   Koo, Ja Wook ^a   Lorsch, Zachary S ^a   Feng, Jian ^a   Heshmati, Mitra ^a   Wang, Minghui ^a   Turecki, Gustavo ^c   Neve, Rachel ^d   Zhang, Bin ^a   Shen, Li ^a   Nestler, Eric J ^a   Russo, Scott J ^a   more..

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Behavior; Depression; Epigenetics; Nucleus accumbens; Sex differences; Stress

Indexed keywords

DNA METHYLTRANSFERASE 3A; DNA (CYTOSINE 5) METHYLTRANSFERASE; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DOWN REGULATION; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; EXPERIMENTAL BEHAVIORAL TEST; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; GENE EXPRESSION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NOVELTY SUPPRESSED FEEDING TEST; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA EXTRACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; SUBCHRONIC VARIABLE STRESS; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; UPREGULATION; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; BIOSYNTHESIS; C57BL MOUSE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DEFENSE MECHANISM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE TARGETING; GENETICS; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MENTAL STRESS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL RESILIENCE; PSYCHOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SWIMMING;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CHRONIC DISEASE; DNA (CYTOSINE-5-)-METHYLTRANSFERASE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, ENZYMOLOGIC; GENE KNOCK-IN TECHNIQUES; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, KNOCKOUT; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; REPRESSION, PSYCHOLOGY; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84949940737     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.1392-15.2015     Document Type: Article

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