Effect of neonatal handling on adult rat spatial learning and memory following acute stress

Stress

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 148-159

  Stamatakis, A ^a   Pondiki, S ^a   Kitraki, E ^b   Diamantopoulou, A ^a   Panagiotaropoulos, T ^a   Raftogianni, A ^a   Stylianopoulou, F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Early handling; Glucocorticoid receptor; Hippocampus; Mineralocorticoid receptor; Morris water maze

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EARLY HANDLING; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RECALL; SPATIAL MEMORY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; WEANING; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; RATS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 40049090969     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10253890701653039     Document Type: Article

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