Chronic Social Defeat Stress Up-Regulates Spexin in the Brain of Nile Tilapia (Oreochromis niloticus)

Abstract Spexin (SPX), a neuropeptide evolutionarily conserved from fish to mammals, is widely distributed in the brain and peripheral tissues and associated with various physiological functions. Recently SPX has been suggested to be involved in neurological mechanism of stress. The current study in...

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Main Authors: Chor Hong Lim, Tomoko Soga, Berta Levavi-Sivan, Ishwar S. Parhar
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-64639-4