Oxytocin in the nucleus accumbens shell reverses CRFR2-evoked passive stress-coping after partner loss in monogamous male prairie voles

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 64, Issue , 2016, Pages 66-78

  Bosch, Oliver J ^a   Dabrowska, Joanna ^b   Modi, Meera E ^c,d   Johnson, Zachary V ^d   Keebaugh, Alaine C ^d   Barrett, Catherine E ^d   Ahern, Todd H ^d,e   Guo, JiDong ^d   Grinevich, Valery ^f   Rainnie, Donald G ^d   Neumann, Inga D ^a   Young, Larry J ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b ROSALIND FRANKLIN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND SCIENCE   (United States)

^c BOSTON CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing factor; Grieving; Partner separation; Passive stress coping; Social loss; Stresscopin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; MESSENGER RNA; OXYTOCIN; SHORT HAIRPIN RNA; ARGIPRESTOCIN; ASTRESSIN-2B; BACTERIAL PROTEIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR; CYCLOPEPTIDE; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; PHOTOPROTEIN; SMALL INTERFERING RNA; UCN3 PROTEIN, HUMAN; UROCORTIN; VASOTOCIN, (BETA-MERCAPTO-BETA,BETA-CYCLOPENTAMETHYLENEPROPIONIC ACID)-O-METHYL-TYR(2)-THR(4)-ORN(8)-TYR(9)-NH2; YELLOW FLUORESCENT PROTEIN, BACTERIA;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEREAVEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; GENE SILENCING; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INTERACTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RECEPTOR UPREGULATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; ARVICOLINAE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; CORPUS STRIATUM; DEATH; DRUG EFFECTS; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIAL; METABOLISM; MICROINJECTION; NERVE CELL; PAIR BONDING; PHYSIOLOGY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BACTERIAL PROTEINS; CORPUS STRIATUM; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DEATH; FEMALE; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LUMINESCENT PROTEINS; MALE; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; MICROINJECTIONS; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXYTOCIN; PAIR BOND; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RNA, SMALL INTERFERING; UROCORTINS; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 84951795365     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.11.011     Document Type: Article

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