Alterations in Medial Prefrontal Cortical Activity and Plasticity in Rats with Disruption of Cortical Development

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 60, Issue 11, 2006, Pages 1259-1267

  Goto, Yukiori ^a   Grace, Anthony A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Animal model; dopamine; prefrontal cortex; schizophrenia; stress; synaptic plasticity

Indexed keywords

METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL ACETATE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN CORTEX; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORTICAL SYNCHRONIZATION; DOPAMINERGIC SYSTEM; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; IN VIVO STUDY; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL PROLIFERATION; DOPAMINE; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; METHYLAZOXYMETHANOL ACETATE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROTOXINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 33750628902     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2006.05.046     Document Type: Article

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