Chronic stress alters dendritic morphology in rat medial prefrontal cortex

Journal of Neurobiology

Volumn 60, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 236-248

  Cook, Susan C ^a   Wellman, Cara L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendrites; Glucocorticoids; Prefrontal cortex; Pyramidal neurons; Restraint stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ATROPHY; CELL STRUCTURE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; GOLGI STAIN; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MOUSE STRAIN; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STRESS;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; DENDRITES; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 3442877504     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/neu.20025     Document Type: Article

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