Prefrontal Cortex Corticotropin-Releasing Factor Receptor 1 Conveys Acute Stress-Induced Executive Dysfunction

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 80, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 743-753

  Uribe Mariño, Andrés ^a   Gassen, Nils C ^a   Wiesbeck, Maximilian F ^a   Balsevich, Georgia ^a   Santarelli, Sara ^a   Solfrank, Beate ^a   Dournes, Carine ^a   Fries, Gabriel R ^a,b   Masana, Merce ^a   Labermeier, Christiana ^a   Wang, Xiao Dong ^a,c   Hafner, Kathrin ^a   Schmid, Bianca ^a   Rein, Theo ^a   Chen, Alon ^a   Deussing, Jan M ^a   Schmidt, Mathias V ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF PSYCHIATRY   (Germany)

^b Laboratory of Molecular Psychiatry   (Brazil)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing factor receptor 1; Executive dysfunction; Prefrontal cortex; Reversal learning; Stress; Temporal order memory

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE 3',5' PHOSPHOROTHIOATE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CYCLIC AMP DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN; MESSENGER RNA; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; GENE DELETION; GENE EXPRESSION; IMMUNOPRECIPITATION; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMAL; C57BL MOUSE; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; LEARNING; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ACUTE DISEASE; ANIMALS; COGNITIVE DYSFUNCTION; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RECEPTORS, CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; REVERSAL LEARNING; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84994527548     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2016.03.2106     Document Type: Article

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