Neuroplasticity of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis early in life requires recurrent recruitment of stress-regulating brain regions

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 26, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 2434-2442

  Fenoglio, Kristina A ^a   Chen, Yuncai ^a   Baram, Tallie Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Handling; Maternal care; Stress; Thalamic paraventricular nucleus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; PERK KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE R; PROTEIN V FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED SOMATOSENSORY RESPONSE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; STRESS; STRIA TERMINALIS; AGE; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; CELL COUNT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CYTOLOGY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; METHODOLOGY; MOTIVATION; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL COUNT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; EIF-2 KINASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33645642113     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4080-05.2006     Document Type: Article

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