Stress and corticosterone enhance cognitive recovery from hippocampal stroke in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 462, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 248-252

  Faraji, Jamshid ^a,b   Lehmann, Hugo ^a,c   Metz, Gerlinde A ^a   Sutherland, Robert J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

^b GOLESTAN UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

^c TRENT UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Endothelin 1; Hippocampal stroke; Morris water task; Restraint stress; Ziggurat task

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOTHELIN 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BRAIN ISCHEMIA; CEREBROVASCULAR ACCIDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; NEUROPROTECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; COGNITION; CORTICOSTERONE; ENDOTHELIN-1; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEMORY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; STROKE;

EID: 67849132261     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2009.06.096     Document Type: Article

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