Chronic corticosterone impairs inhibitory avoidance in rats: Possible link with atrophy of hippocampal CA3 neurons

Pharmacology Biochemistry and Behavior

Volumn 66, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 235-240

  Bisagno, Verónica ^a   Ferrini, Mónica ^c   Ríos, Hugo ^a   Zieher, Luis M ^a   Wikinski, Silvia I ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b Instituto de Investigaciones Farmacologicas   (Argentina)

^c INST DE BIOL Y MED EXPERIMENTAL   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Chronic treatment; Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid receptor; Golgi staining; Hippocampal dendritic atrophy; Inhibitory avoidance; Learning; Rats

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN ATROPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID BLOOD LEVEL; DENDRITE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; STAINING;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; ATROPHY; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOSOL; DENDRITES; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG IMPLANTS; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID;

EID: 0034043045     PISSN: 00913057     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0091-3057(00)00265-3     Document Type: Article

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