Chronic glucocorticoids increase hippocampal vulnerability to neurotoxicity under conditions that produce CA3 dendritic retraction but fail to impair spatial recognition memory

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 31, 2007, Pages 8278-8285

  Conrad, Cheryl D ^a   McLaughlin, Katie J ^a   Harman, James S ^a   Foltz, Cainan ^a   Wieczorek, Lindsay ^a   Lightner, Elizabeth ^a   Wright, Ryan L ^a  

^a ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Dendritic arborization; Depression; Exploration; Glucocorticoid; Hippocampus; Ibotenic acid; Learning and memory; Neuronal death; Rat; Recognition memory; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; PHENYTOIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DISEASE EXACERBATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL NECROSIS; NEUROPROTECTION; NEUROTOXICITY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECOGNITION; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS;

ANIMALS; DENDRITES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 34547689480     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 02706474     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.2121-07.2007     Document Type: Article

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