Neonatal handling alters brain organization but does not influence recovery from perinatal cortical injury

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 119, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 1375-1383

  Gibb, Robbin ^a,b   Kolb, Bryan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Early experience; Frontal cortex; Golgi Cox; Neuronal morphology; Rat cortical development

Indexed keywords

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; BRAIN WEIGHT; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NEWBORN CARE; NONHUMAN; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW; THALAMUS; THICKNESS;

ACETYLCHOLINESTERASE; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BRAIN INJURIES; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; FEMALE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PREGNANCY; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; REACTION TIME; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; SEX FACTORS; SILVER STAINING;

EID: 27744573552     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.119.5.1375     Document Type: Article

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