Development of a mild prenatal stress rat model to study long term effects on neural function and survival

Metabolic Brain Disease

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 31-42

  Mabandla, Musa V ^a   Dobson, Bryony ^a   Johnson, Shula ^a   Kellaway, Laurie A ^a   Daniels, Willie M U ^b   Russell, Vivienne A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STELLENBOSCH   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cross fostering; Food deprivation; HPA axis; Mild stress; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID METABOLISM; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GESTATION PERIOD; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; ORGAN WEIGHT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL STRESS; PROGENY; RAT; SURVIVAL TIME;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; EATING; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SURVIVAL;

RATTUS;

EID: 39049161117     PISSN: 08857490     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11011-007-9049-2     Document Type: Article

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