Postnatal repeated maternal deprivation produces age-dependent changes of brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression in selected rat brain regions

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 708-714

  Roceri, Mila ^a,d   Cirulli, Francesca ^b   Pessina, Cassandra ^b   Peretto, Paolo ^c   Racagni, Giorgio ^a,d   Riva, Marco A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^d IRCCS ISTITUTO CENTRO SAN GIOVANNI DI DIO FATEBENEFRATELLI   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cellular plasticity; Development; Neurotrophin; Prefrontal cortex; Schizophrenia; Stress

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADULTHOOD; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RIBONUCLEASE PROTECTION ASSAY; UPREGULATION;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROUSAL; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORPUS STRIATUM; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFERENCE VALUES; RNA, MESSENGER; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 1642412555     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2003.12.011     Document Type: Article

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