Chronic corticosterone-induced deterioration in rat behaviour is not paralleled by changes in hippocampal NF-κB-activation

Stress

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 97-106

  Plaschke, Konstanze ^a   Feindt, Johanna ^a   Djuric, Zdenka ^a   Heiland, Sabine ^a   Autschbach, Frank ^a   Lewicka, Sabina ^b   Martin, Eike ^a   Bardenheuer, Hubert J ^a   Nawroth, Peter P ^a   Bierhaus, Angelika ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Adrenal cortex; Behaviour; Corticosterone; Hippocampus; Magnetic resonance imaging; NF B

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN; PLACEBO;

ADRENAL CORTEX; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NF-KAPPA B; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS;

EID: 33747108108     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253890600691551     Document Type: Article

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