Article
Brain dopamine receptor plasticity: testing a diathesis-stress hypothesis in an animal model.
Psychopharmacology - 1 Jul 1997
Cabib S, Oliverio A, Ventura R, Lucchese F, Puglisi-Allegra S
Abstract excerpt
A wealth of clinical data supports a major role of genetic liability as well as of altered brain dopamine (DA) functioning in different types of behavioural disturbances. Genetic influence on behaviour involves multiple genes, rather than one or two major genes, as well as non-genetic sources of...
Topics
- Animals
- Apomorphine
- Behavior, Animal
- Chromosome Mapping
- Disease Susceptibility
- Dopamine Agonists
- Genetic Markers
- Genetic Predisposition to Disease
- Male
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred C57BL
- Mice, Inbred DBA
- Phenotype
- Receptors, Dopamine
- Stress, Physiological