Dysfunctional nurturing behavior in rat dams with limited access to nesting material: A clinically relevant model for early-life stress

Neuroscience

Volumn 154, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1132-1142

  Ivy, A S ^a   Brunson, K L ^a   Sandman, C ^b   Baram, T Z ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

CRH; depression; maternal behavior; programming; stress; vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; GROOMING; LICKING; LIFE STRESS; MATERNAL CARE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; NESTING; NONHUMAN; NURTURING BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; ORGAN WEIGHT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PUERPERIUM; RAT; SCORING SYSTEM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DENSITOMETRY; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NESTING BEHAVIOR; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 46549086320     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2008.04.019     Document Type: Article

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