Chronic unpredictable stress impairs long-term potentiation in rat hippocampal CA1 area and dentate gyrus in vitro

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 9, 2003, Pages 1928-1934

  Alfarez, Deborah N ^a   Joëls, Marìan ^a   Krugers, Harm J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Glucocorticoid receptor; Hippocampus; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM EXPOSURE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; STRESS; SYNAPSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THYMUS;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DENTATE GYRUS; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS;

EID: 0038054209     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1460-9568.2003.02622.x     Document Type: Article

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