Prenatal stress alters spine density and dendritic length of nucleus accumbens and hippocampus neurons in rat offspring

Synapse

Volumn 63, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 794-804

  Martínez Téllez, Rubelia Isaura ^a   Hernández Torres, Elizabeth ^a   Gamboa, Citlalli ^a   Flores, Gonzalo ^a  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Dendritic morphology; Golgi Cox stain; Prenatal stress; Restrained movement; Schizophrenia; Spine density

Indexed keywords

AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELIVERY; DENDRITE; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENSITY; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; FEMALE; FOOD DEPRIVATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; GOLGI STAIN; HIPPOCAMPUS; HOME; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL STRESS; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; WATER DEPRIVATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; DENDRITIC SPINES; DOPAMINE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM MALFORMATIONS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROGENESIS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 68049122867     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.20664     Document Type: Article

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