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Transient early-life forebrain corticotropin-releasing hormone elevation causes long-lasting anxiogenic and despair-like changes in mice.
The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience - 17 Feb 2010
Kolber Benedict J, Boyle Maureen P, Wieczorek Lindsay, Kelley Crystal L, Onwuzurike Chiamaka C, Nettles Sabin A, Vogt Sherri K, Muglia Louis J
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During development, early-life stress, such as abuse or trauma, induces long-lasting changes that are linked to adult anxiety and depressive behavior. It has been postulated that altered expression of corticotropin-releasing hormone (CRH) can at least partially account for the various effects of stress on behavior. In accord with this hypothesis, evidence from pharmacological and genetic studies has indicated the...
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