Increased adult hippocampal brain-derived neurotrophic factor and normal levels of neurogenesis in maternal separation rats

Journal of Neuroscience Research

Volumn 79, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 772-778

  Greisen, Mia H ^a   Altar, C Anthony ^b   Bolwig, Tom G ^a   Whitehead, Richard ^c   Wörtwein, Gitta ^a  

^a Mental Health Center Glostrup   (Denmark)

^b Psychiatric Genomics Inc   (United States)

^c OTSUKA PHARMACEUTICAL DEVELOPMENT AND COMMERCIALIZATION INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; BrdU; Bromodeoxyuridine; Forced swimming; Neonatal stress

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN PROTEIN; BROXURIDINE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE REGENERATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STIMULATION; STRESS; SURVIVAL; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL COUNT; ENZYME-LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STEM CELLS; STRESS; SWIMMING;

EID: 16444387081     PISSN: 03604012     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/jnr.20418     Document Type: Article

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