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Stressor

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Drying shrinkage and cracking initiation in clays: Main modeling concepts and application to the ventilation of a tunnel

Lyesse Laloui, Hervé Péron, John Eichenberger

Damage induced by desiccation in clays (i.e. drying shrinkage and cracking) is an issue to be investigated in geo-environmental engineering, especially when the clay is used as a confining barrier for industrial and nuclear waste storage. Dramatic increase ...

Taylor & Francis Group2010

The role of NCAM in auditory fear conditioning and its modulation by stress: a focus on the amygdala

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

Chronic stress in rodents was shown to induce structural shrinkage and functional alterations in the hippocampus that were linked to spatial memory impairments. Effects of chronic stress on the amygdala have been linked to a facilitation of fear conditioni ...

Wiley-Blackwell2010

Chronic stress-induced alterations in amygdala responsiveness and behavior - modulation by trait anxiety and corticotropin-releasing factor systems

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez, Maria Isabel Cordero Campana

The basolateral nucleus of the amygdala (BLA) plays a key role in emotional arousal and anxiety, and expresses high levels of corticotropin-releasing factor receptor (CRFR)1. In rat brain slices, we have recently shown that afferent activation of the BLA i ...

Wiley-Blackwell2008

Stress before puberty exerts a sex- and age-related impact on auditory and contextual fear conditioning in the rat

Maria del Carmen Sandi Perez

Adolescence is a period of major physical, hormonal, and psychological changes. It is also characterized by a significant increase in the incidence of psychopathologies and this increase is gender-specific. Stress during adolescence is associated with the ...

2007

Activation of the heat shock response in plants by chlorophenols: transgenic Physcomitrella patens as a sensitive biosensor for organic pollutants

Jean-Paul Schwitzguebel

The ability to detect early molecular responses to various chemicals is central to the understanding of biological impact of pollutants in a context of varying environmental cues. To monitor stress responses in a model plant, we used transgenic moss Physco ...

2007