Repeated exposure to corticosterone, but not restraint, decreases the number of reelin-positive cells in the adult rat hippocampus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 460, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 170-174

  Lussier, April L ^a   Caruncho, Hector J ^b   Kalynchuk, Lisa E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Dentate gyrus; Depression; Hippocampus; Physical restraint; Reelin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID; REELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DEPRESSION; DRUG EXPOSURE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RISK FACTOR; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; SYMPTOMATOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTI-INFLAMMATORY AGENTS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELL COUNT; CORTICOSTERONE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION SCHEDULE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES;

EID: 67349254151     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.05.050     Document Type: Article

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