Molecular and Cellular Effects of Traumatic Stress: Implications for PTSD

Current Psychiatry Reports

Volumn 19, Issue 11, 2017, Pages

  Girgenti, Matthew J ^a   Hare, Brendan D ^a   Ghosal, Sriparna ^a   Duman, Ronald S ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal models of PTSD; Genomics; Glucocorticoid signaling; Prefrontal cortex; PTSD; Transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR 1; DICER; INTERLEUKIN 16; INTERLEUKIN 18; MAJOR HISTOCOMPATIBILITY ANTIGEN CLASS 2; METABOTROPIC RECEPTOR 5; SERUM AND GLUCOCORTICOID REGULATED KINASE 1; SOMATOMEDIN B; STAT5B PROTEIN; VESICULAR MONOAMINE TRANSPORTER 2; GLUCOCORTICOID;

AMYGDALA; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; CSF 1 GENE; DICER GENE; FKPB5 GENE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIST1H2AC GENE; HUMAN; IGF 2 GENE; IL 18 GENE; MHC II GENE; NEUROBIOLOGY; NFIA GENE; NONHUMAN; P11 GENE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PF4 GENE; PHYSICAL STRESS; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PZDZ8 GENE; REVIEW; RODENT MODEL; S100A10 GENE; SDPR GENE; SGK1 GENE; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; SINGLE PROLONGED STRESS; SLC18A2 GENE; STAT5B GENE; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; ANIMAL; BRAIN; GENOMICS; INFLAMMATION; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; GENOMICS; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INFLAMMATION; RATS; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 85029859224     PISSN: 15233812     EISSN: 15351645     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11920-017-0841-3     Document Type: Review

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