Chronic corticosterone treatment impairs trace conditioning in rats with a neonatal medial prefrontal cortex lesion

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 203, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 173-179

  Enkel, Thomas ^a   Koch, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Neonatal lesion; Prefrontal cortex; Rat; Schizophrenia; Trace conditioning

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN CORTEX; BRAIN DAMAGE; BRAIN TISSUE; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NEUROENDOCRINE SYSTEM; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STRESS; TISSUE REGENERATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CONDITIONING, CLASSICAL; CORTICOSTERONE; IBOTENIC ACID; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION;

EID: 67649641786     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.04.033     Document Type: Article

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