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NPY-Y1 coexpressed with NPY-Y5 receptors modulate anxiety but not mild social stress response in mice.
Genes, brain, and behavior - 1 Sept 2015
Longo A, Oberto A, Mele P, Mattiello L, Pisu M G, Palanza P, Serra M, Eva C
Abstract excerpt
The Y1 and Y5 receptors for neuropeptide Y have overlapping functions in regulating anxiety. We previously demonstrated that conditional removal of the Y1 receptor in the Y5 receptor expressing neurons in juvenile Npy1r(Y5R-/-) mice leads to higher anxiety but no changes in hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenocortical axis activity, under basal conditions or after acute restraint stress. In the present study, we used...
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