Prenatal dexamethasone impairs behavior and the activation of the BDNF exon IV promoter in the paraventricular nucleus in adult offspring

Endocrinology

Volumn 149, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 6356-6365

  Hossain, Amzad ^a   Hajman, Karla ^a   Charitidi, Konstantina ^a   Erhardt, Sophie ^a   Zimmermann, Ulrike ^b   Knipper, Marlies ^b   Canlon, Barbara ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; DEXAMETHASONE; GLUCOCORTICOID ANTAGONIST; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ACOUSTIC REFLEX; ADRENAL GLAND; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; EXON; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; ORGAN SIZE; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

EID: 57349119081     PISSN: 00137227     EISSN: 00137227     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1210/en.2008-0388     Document Type: Article

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