Perinatal distress leads to lateralized medial prefrontal cortical dopamine hypofunction in adult rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 14, 2000, Pages 5538-5543

  Brake, Wayne G ^a   Sullivan, Ron M ^b   Gratton, Alain ^b  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Anoxia; Asymmetry; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; Cesarean section; Dopamine transporter; Obstetric compfications; Stress; Voltammetry

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CESAREAN SECTION; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FETUS HYPOXIA; LOCOMOTION; MENTAL DISEASE; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PERINATAL PERIOD; POTENTIOMETRY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

EID: 0034661747     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.20-14-05538.2000     Document Type: Article

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