Maternal postpartum learned helplessness (LH) affects maternal care by dams and responses to the LH test in adolescent offspring

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 56, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 112-120

  Kurata, Akiko ^a   Morinobu, Shigeru ^a,b   Fuchikami, Manabu ^a   Yamamoto, Shigeto ^a   Yamawaki, Shigeto ^a,b  

^a HIROSHIMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Japan Science and Technology Agency   (Japan)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Early postpartum period; Glucocorticoid receptor; Hypothalamic pituitary adrenal (HPA) axis; Learned helplessness; Maternal behavior

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE RESPONSE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; LEARNED HELPLESSNESS; MALE; MARE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; NURSING; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PUERPERIUM; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BREAST FEEDING; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HELPLESSNESS, LEARNED; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MAZE LEARNING; MOTOR ACTIVITY; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER;

EID: 67349259331     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2009.03.016     Document Type: Article

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