Acute cold stress leading to elevated corticosterone neither enhances synaptic efficacy nor impairs LTP in the dentate gyrus of freely moving rats

Brain Research

Volumn 789, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 245-255

  Bramham, Clive R ^a   Southard, Teresa ^a   Ahlers, Stephen T ^b   Sarvey, John M ^a  

^a UNIFORMED SERVICES UNIVERSITY OF THE HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

^b NAVAL MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; Memory; Stress; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENTATE GYRUS; EVOKED RESPONSE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; COLD; CORTICOSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; HOUSING, ANIMAL; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS; SYNAPSES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0032513547     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01265-1     Document Type: Article

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