Amygdalar MicroRNA-15a Is Essential for Coping with Chronic Stress

Cell Reports

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1882-1891

  Volk, Naama ^a,b   Pape, Julius C ^b   Engel, Mareen ^b   Zannas, Anthony S ^b,d   Cattane, Nadia ^e   Cattaneo, Annamaria ^e,f   Binder, Elisabeth B ^b,c   Chen, Alon ^a,b  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRESCIA   (Italy)

^f KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ago2; amygdala; anxiety; childhood trauma; chronic stress; early life stress; FKBP5; microRNA 15a; stress adaption; stress related psychopathologies

Indexed keywords

ARGONAUTE 2 PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MICRORNA 15A; ARGONAUTE PROTEIN; FK 506 BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; MICRORNA; MIRN15 MICRORNA, HUMAN; MIRN15 MICRORNA, MOUSE; TACROLIMUS BINDING PROTEIN 5;

AMYGDALA; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN LEVEL; CHILD; CHILDHOOD TRAUMA; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FKBP51 GENE; GENE; GENE OVEREXPRESSION; GENE TARGETING; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTRAUMA; TRANSCRIPTION REGULATION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; C57BL MOUSE; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; DRUG EFFECTS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; INJURY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ARGONAUTE PROTEINS; BASE SEQUENCE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE KNOCKDOWN TECHNIQUES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; MALE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICRORNAS; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TACROLIMUS BINDING PROTEINS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84994400059     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22111247     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.10.038     Document Type: Article

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