Enhanced nucleus accumbens dopamine and plasma corticosterone stress responses in adult rats with neonatal excitotoxic lesions to the medial prefrontal cortex

Neuroscience

Volumn 96, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 687-695

  Brake, W G ^a   Flores, G ^b   Francis, D ^a   Meaney, M J ^a   Srivastava, L K ^a   Gratton, A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Glucocorticoids; HPA axis; Ibotenic acid; Prepulse inhibition; Schizophrenia; Voltammetry

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE; IBOTENIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEEDBACK SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; POTENTIOMETRY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORTICOSTERONE; DENERVATION; DOPAMINE; MALE; NERVE DEGENERATION; NEURONS; NEUROTOXINS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS;

EID: 0034015275     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(00)00002-6     Document Type: Article

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