Hippocampal morphology is differentially affected by reproductive experience in the mother

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 66, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 71-81

  Pawluski, Jodi L ^a,b   Galea, Liisa A M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dendritic arborization; Hippocampus; Male offspring; Mothering; Reproductive experience; Spine density

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APICAL MEMBRANE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL STRUCTURE; DENDRITE; FEMALE; GOLGI COMPLEX; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MEMORY; MOTHER; MULTIPARA; NONHUMAN; NULLIPARA; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REPRODUCTION; STAINING; TECHNIQUE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL SIZE; CORTICOSTERONE; DENDRITES; DENDRITIC SPINES; ESTRADIOL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NEURONS; PARITY; PREGNANCY; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SILVER STAINING;

EID: 29244448051     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.20194     Document Type: Article

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