Maternal isolation alters the expression of neural proteins during development: 'Stroking' stimulation reverses these effects

Brain Research

Volumn 1158, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 11-27

  Chatterjee, Diptendu ^a   Chatterjee Chakraborty, Munmun ^a   Rees, Stephanie ^b   Cauchi, Jonathan ^a   de Medeiros, Cynthia B ^a   Fleming, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artificial rearing; Development; Maternal; Neural plasticity; Rat; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN PROTEIN; CELL MARKER; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NEUROMODULIN; PROTEIN NEU N; PROTEIN S 100; SYNAPTOPHYSIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY; IMPULSIVENESS; JUVENILE ANIMAL; LICKING; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL PERIOD; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; REARING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; APOPTOSIS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; IN SITU NICK-END LABELING; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34447511524     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.04.069     Document Type: Article

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