Neonatal maternal separation alters adult eyeblink conditioning and glucocorticoid receptor expression in the lnterpositus nucleus of the cerebellum

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 67, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 1751-1764

  Wilber, Aaron A ^a   Southwood, Christopher J ^a   Sokoloff, Greta ^a   Steinmetz, Joseph E ^b   Wellman, Cara L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Eyeblink conditioning; Glucocorticoid receptors; Immunohistochemistry; Maternal separation; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; THIONINE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL COUNT; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; EYELID REFLEX; FEMALE; INTERPOSITUS NUCLEUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROMODULATION; NEWBORN; NEWBORN PERIOD; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STATE DEPENDENT LEARNING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; BLINKING; CEREBELLUM; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; SEX CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 35848942825     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 1932846X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20549     Document Type: Article

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