Repeated stress induces dendritic spine loss in the rat medial prefrontal cortex

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 313-320

  Radley, Jason J ^a,b,d   Rocher, Anne B ^a   Miller, Melinda ^a,c   Janssen, William G M ^a   Liston, Conor ^c   Hof, Patrick R ^a,b   McEwen, Bruce S ^b,c   Morrison, John H ^a,b  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b NIMH Center for Fear and Anxiety   (United States)

^c ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SALK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGICAL STUDIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Axospinous synapse; Cell loading; Dendritic spine; Post traumatic stress disorder; Prefrontal; Stress

Indexed keywords

LUCIFER YELLOW;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COMPARTMENTALIZATION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CELL LOSS; CELL POPULATION; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INJECTION; IONTOPHORESIS; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STRESS; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECURRENCE; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS;

EID: 32144436554     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhi104     Document Type: Article

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