Effect of varied gestational stress on acquisition of spatial memory, hippocampal LTP and synaptic proteins in juvenile male rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 179, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 126-132

  Yaka, Rami ^a   Salomon, Shiri ^a   Matzner, Henry ^a   Weinstock, Marta ^a  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

Author keywords

Hippocampal plasticity; NMDA and AMPA receptors; NR2B; Prenatal stress; PSD95; Spatial leaning

Indexed keywords

AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING DISORDER; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; RECEPTORS, GLUTAMATE; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPSES;

EID: 33947306903     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.01.018     Document Type: Article

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