Brief neonatal maternal separation alters extinction of conditioned fear and corticolimbic glucocorticoid and NMDA receptor expression in adult rats

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 69, Issue 2-3, 2009, Pages 73-87

  Wilber, Aaron A ^a   Southwood, Christopher J ^a   Wellman, Cara L ^a  

^a INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Fear conditioning; Glucocorticoid receptors; Immunohistochemistry; Maternal separation; NMDA receptor

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ADULTHOOD; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONALITY; FEAR; FEMALE; FOOTSHOCK; HABITUATION; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LEARNING; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REARING; RECALL;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; FRONTAL LOBE; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 59949084686     PISSN: 00223034     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.20691     Document Type: Article

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