Experience-Dependent Cell Survival in the Maternal Rat Brain

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 121, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 1001-1011

  Akbari, Emis M ^a   Chatterjee, Diptendu ^a   Lévy, Frédéric ^b   Fleming, Alison S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b UMR85 PHYSIOLOGIE DE LA REPRODUCTION ET DES COMPORTEMENTS   (France)

Author keywords

isolation rearing; maternal behavior; neurogenesis; parturition; plasticity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MITOSIS RATE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; RAT; REARING;

ANIMALS; ANTIMETABOLITES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MEMORY; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NERVE NET; NEURONS; OLFACTORY BULB; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REPRODUCTION; WEANING;

EID: 35748966727     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.121.5.1001     Document Type: Article

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