Behavioral and morphological alterations following neonatal excitotoxic lesions of the medial prefrontal cortex in rats

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 195, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 185-198

  Schneider, Miriam ^a   Koch, Michael ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Apomorphine; mPFC; Myelination; Neonatal lesion; Prepulse inhibition; Progressive ratio

Indexed keywords

APOMORPHINE; IBOTENIC ACID;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADULTHOOD; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; EXCITOTOXICITY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMPULSIVENESS; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; MYELINATION; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PERFORMANCE; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; STARTLE REFLEX; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; DEMYELINATING DISEASES; EXCITATORY AMINO ACID AGONISTS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOOD PREFERENCES; IBOTENIC ACID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MOVEMENT; NEURAL INHIBITION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REFLEX, ACOUSTIC; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 23644447703     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2005.04.014     Document Type: Article

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