Maternal deprivation effect on the infant's neural stress markers is reversed by tactile stimulation and feeding but not by suppressing corticosterone

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 18, Issue 23, 1998, Pages 10171-10179

  Van Oers, Helga J J ^a,b   De Kloet, E Ronald ^b   Whelan, Tara ^a   Levine, Seymour ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Brain; Corticosteroid receptors; Corticosterone; Dexamethasone; Maternal deprivation; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEEDING; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; STRESS; TACTILE STIMULATION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032402170     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.18-23-10171.1998     Document Type: Article

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