Université de Fribourg

Stress impacts the regulation neuropeptides in the rat hippocampus and prefrontal cortex

Li, Wenxue ; Papilloud, Aurelie ; Lozano-Montes, Laura ; Zhao, Nan ; Ye, Xueting ; Zhang, Xiaozhe ; Sandi, Carmen ; Rainer, Gregor

In: PROTEOMICS, 2018, vol. 18, no. 7, p. 1700408

Adverse life experiences increase the lifetime risk to several stress‐related psychopathologies, such as anxiety or depressive‐like symptoms following stress in adulthood. However, the neurochemical modulations triggered by stress have not been fully characterized. Neuropeptides play an important role as signaling molecules that contribute to physiological regulation and have been linked...