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Decreased Nucleus Accumbens Expression of Psychiatric Disorder Risk Gene Cacna1c Promotes Susceptibility to Social Stress.
The international journal of neuropsychopharmacology - 1 May 2017
Terrillion Chantelle E, Francis T Chase, Puche Adam C, Lobo Mary Kay, Gould Todd D
Abstract excerpt
Background: Polymorphisms in the CACNA1C gene are associated with human mood disorders. The rodent social defeat model of stress/mood-disorder susceptibility results in maladaptive consequences mediated by altered function of mesolimbic circuits. Methods: mRNA levels of Cacna1c in the nucleus accumbens of mice exposed to social defeat were assessed. Cacna1c was selectively deleted in the nucleus accumbens of...
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