Weaning age, social isolation, and gender, interact to determine adult explorative and social behavior, and dendritic and spine morphology in prefrontal cortex of rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 180, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 174-182

  Ferdman, N ^a   Murmu, R P ^b   Bock, J ^b   Braun, K ^b   Leshem, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dendrites; Dendritic spines; Development; Isolation; Open field; Orbitofrontal cortex; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Social behavior; Weaning

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; FEMALE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REARING; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPINE; WEANING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENDRITES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; WEANING;

EID: 34248150977     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.03.011     Document Type: Article

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