Pre-pubertal stress exposure affects adult behavioral response in association with changes in circulating corticosterone and brain-derived neurotrophic factor

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 844-858

  Bazak, Noam ^a   Kozlovsky, Nitsan ^a   Kaplan, Zeev ^a   Matar, Michael ^a   Golan, Hava ^b   Zohar, Joseph ^c   Richter Levin, Gal ^d   Cohen, Hagit ^a  

^a MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (Israel)

^b BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Anxiety like behavior; Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF); Corticosterone; Early life stress; Post traumatic stress disorder

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EARLY LIFE STRESS; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDATOR STRESS; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT; STARTLE REFLEX; STIMULUS RESPONSE;

AGE FACTORS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FOOD CHAIN; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEXUAL MATURATION; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 67349175755     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2008.12.018     Document Type: Article

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