Early experience modifies the postnatal assembly of autonomic emotional motor circuits in rats

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 25, Issue 40, 2005, Pages 9102-9111

  Card, J Patrick ^a   Levitt, Pat ^b   Gluhovsky, Maxim ^a   Rinaman, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Emotion; Gastric; Gastrointestinal; Hypothalamus; Limbic; Maternal separation; Postnatal development; Pseudorabies virus; Stress; Transneuronal tracing

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTION; FEMALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABIES VIRUS; RAT; STOMACH WALL; STRESS;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BRAIN; EMOTIONS; FEMALE; GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEINS; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE NET; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 27144528281     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2345-05.2005     Document Type: Article

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