Single, intense prenatal stress decreases emotionality and enhances learning performance in the adolescent rat offspring: Interaction with a brief, daily maternal separation

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 169, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 128-136

  Cannizzaro, Carla ^a   Plescia, Fulvio ^a   Martire, Maria ^b   Gagliano, Mauro ^a   Cannizzaro, Gaspare ^a   Mantia, Giacoma ^a   Cannizzaro, Emanuele ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

Author keywords

Adolescent rat; Behaviour; Corticosterone; Maternal separation; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LEARNING; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE; TOUCH; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; CORTICOSTERONE; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 33244464723     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2005.12.010     Document Type: Article

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