Influence of naturally occurring variations in maternal care on prepulse inhibition of acoustic startle and the medial prefrontal cortical dopamine response to stress in adult rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1493-1502

  Zhang, T Y ^a   Chretien P ^a   Meaney, M J ^a   Gratton, A ^a  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Catechol O methyl transferase; Dopamine transporter; Maternal licking grooming; Prepulse inhibition; Stress; Voltammetry

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; BEHAVIOR; DOPAMINE RELEASE; FEMALE; GROOMING; INDIVIDUALITY; LICKING; LIMBIC CORTEX; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NONHUMAN; POTENTIOMETRY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; RAT STRAIN; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; STARTLE REFLEX; STRESS;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; DISEASE SUSCEPTIBILITY; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; GROOMING; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS;

EID: 13844257157     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.3293-04.2005     Document Type: Article

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