Amygdala-mediated mechanisms regulate visceral hypersensitivity in adult females following early life stress: Importance of the glucocorticoid receptor and corticotropin-releasing factor

Pain

Volumn 158, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 296-305

  Prusator, Dawn K ^a   Greenwood Van Meerveld, Beverley ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Corticotropin releasing factor; Early life stress; Females; Glucocorticoid receptor; Visceral pain

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 1; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR RECEPTOR 2; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; (3,6-DIMETHYL-2-(2,4,6-TRIMETHYLPHENOXY)PYRIDIN-4-YL)(1-ETHYLPROPYL)AMINE; AMINOPYRIDINE DERIVATIVE; ANTISENSE OLIGODEOXYNUCLEOTIDE; FRAGRANCE; MESSENGER RNA;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPERSENSITIVITY; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UPREGULATION; VISCERAL HYPERSENSITIVITY; VISCERAL PAIN; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; CONDITIONED REFLEX; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; LONG EVANS RAT; MAZE TEST; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT;

AMINOPYRIDINES; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; ODORANTS; OLIGODEOXYRIBONUCLEOTIDES, ANTISENSE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; UP-REGULATION; VISCERAL PAIN;

EID: 85018487241     PISSN: 03043959     EISSN: 18726623     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000000759     Document Type: Article

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