Effects of early weaning on anxiety and prefrontal cortical and hippocampal myelination in male and female Wistar rats

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 50, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 332-342

  Kodama, Yuka ^a   Kikusui, Takefumi ^a,b   Takeuchi, Yukari ^a   Mori, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b AZABU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Development; Early weaning; Hippocampus; Myelin formation; Prefrontal cortex; Sex difference

Indexed keywords

ISOPROTEIN; MYELIN; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MYELINATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RAT; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SEX DIFFERENCE; TISSUE LEVEL; WEANING; WISTAR RAT; ANIMAL; ANXIETY; CYTOLOGY; METABOLISM; MYELIN SHEATH; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MYELIN BASIC PROTEINS; MYELIN SHEATH; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; WEANING;

EID: 48949120029     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20289     Document Type: Article

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