Effects of low dose neonatal domoic acid administration on behavioural and physiological response to mild stress in adult rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 98, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 53-59

  Perry, Melissa A ^a   Ryan, Catherine L ^a   Tasker, R Andrew ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND   (Canada)

Author keywords

ACTH; Corticosterone; Domoic acid; Glucocorticoid receptors; Hippocampus; Hypothalamus; Kainate receptors; Mineralocorticoid receptors; Novel water maze; Seizures

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; DOMOIC ACID; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MINERALOCORTICOID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEIZURE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KAINIC ACID; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROMUSCULAR DEPOLARIZING AGENTS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECEPTORS, MINERALOCORTICOID; SEIZURES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 67649467342     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2009.04.009     Document Type: Article

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