Lifelong impact of variations in maternal care on dendritic structure and function of cortical layer 2/3 pyramidal neurons in rat offspring

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Smit Rigter, Laura A ^a   Champagne, Danielle L ^b   van Hooft, Johannes A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REELIN; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; NERVE PROTEIN; REELIN PROTEIN; SCLEROPROTEIN; SERINE PROTEINASE;

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; GROOMING; LICKING; MALE; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BRAIN CORTEX; CYTOLOGY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; LONG EVANS RAT; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

RATTUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CEREBRAL CORTEX; DENDRITES; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GROOMING; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 65249100694     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005167     Document Type: Article

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