Maternal separation enhances neuronal activation and cardiovascular responses to acute stress in borderline hypertensive rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 183, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 25-30

  Sanders, Brian J ^a   Anticevic, Alan ^a  

^a DRAKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular; Fos; Maternal separation; Open field; Rats; Stress

Indexed keywords

ACUTE STRESS; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; POSTNATAL CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS;

AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; AROUSAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; HEART RATE; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEURONS; ONCOGENE PROTEINS V-FOS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, WISTAR; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 34547876839     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2007.05.020     Document Type: Article

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