Prenatal restraint stress and motherless rearing disrupts expression of plasticity markers and stress-induced corticosterone release in adult female Sprague-Dawley rats

Brain Research

Volumn 1158, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 28-38

  Burton, Christie L ^a   Chatterjee, Diptendu ^a   Chatterjee Chakraborty, Munmun ^a   Lovic, Vedran ^a   Grella, Stephanie L ^a   Steiner, Meir ^b   Fleming, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

BDNF; Corticosterone; Maternal deprivation; Prenatal stress; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN PROTEIN; CORTICOSTERONE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; FEMALE; FETUS; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LICKING; LOCOMOTION; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REARING; SOMATOSENSORY STIMULATION; WEANING;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 34447558474     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2007.05.003     Document Type: Article

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