Prenatal stress enhances stress- and corticotropin-releasing factor- induced stimulation of hippocampal acetylcholine release in adult rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 1886-1892

  Day, Jamie C ^a,c   Koehl, Muriel ^a   Deroche, Veronique ^a   Moal, Michel Le ^a   Maccari, Stefania ^a,b  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Development; Gender; Hippocampus; Ovine corticotropin releasing factor; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ACETYLCHOLINE RELEASE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL CARE; PRENATAL GROWTH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS;

EID: 0032030812     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-05-01886.1998     Document Type: Article

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