Prenatal stress and early adoption effects on benzodiazepine receptors and anxiogenic behavior in the adult rat brain

Synapse

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 609-618

  Barros, Virginia G ^a   Rodríguez, Pablo ^b   Martijena, Irene D ^b   Pérez, Adriana ^a   Molina, Victor A ^b   Antonelli, Marta C ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSIDAD DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

^c Instituto de Quimica y Fisicoquimica Biologicas Buenos Aires   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Cross fostering; Flunitrazepan binding; Plus maze; Restraint stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; BENZODIAZEPINE RECEPTOR; FLUNITRAZEPAM;

ADOPTION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FOSTER CARE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LACTATION; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; STRESS;

AGING; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY DISORDERS; BINDING SITES; BRAIN; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; LACTATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE LEARNING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME;

EID: 33750492285     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20336     Document Type: Article

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