Effects of long-term stress and recovery on the prefrontal cortex and dentate gyrus in male and female rats

Cerebral Cortex

Volumn 18, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 2762-2774

  Lin, Yanhua ^a,b   Westenbroek, Christel ^a   Bakker, Petra ^a   Termeer, Joan ^a   Liu, Aihua ^b   Li, Xuejun ^b   Ter Horst, Gert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b PEKING UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (China)

Author keywords

Gender differences; Neuroplasticity; Recovery; Social housing; Stress response

Indexed keywords

CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GROOMING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 56449114772     PISSN: 10473211     EISSN: 14602199     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhn035     Document Type: Article

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