Postweaning social isolation enhances morphological changes in the neonatal ventral hippocampal lesion rat model of psychosis

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 179-187

  Alquicer, Glenda ^a   Morales Medina, Julio Cesar ^b   Quirion, Remi ^b,c   Flores, Gonzalo ^a,b  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b DOUGLAS MENTAL HEALTH UNIVERSITY INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dendritic morphology; Locomotor activity; Neonatal ventral hippocampus lesion; Neurodevelopment; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN DAMAGE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOSIS; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; DENDRITES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GOLGI APPARATUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RATS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; WEANING;

EID: 38949124059     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2007.10.001     Document Type: Article

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