Early maternal separation and chronic variable stress in adulthood changes the neural activity and the expression of glucocorticoid receptor in limbic structures

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 567-574

  Rivarola, María Angélica ^a   Suárez, Marta Magdalena ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Anterodorsal thalamic nuclei; c Fos; Chronic stress; Glucocorticoid receptor; Mammillary nuclei; Maternal separation; Retrosplenial cortex

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPOSURE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT; RECEPTOR DENSITY; THALAMUS NUCLEUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANTERIOR THALAMIC NUCLEI; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; BRAIN; CHRONIC DISEASE; DELIRIUM, DEMENTIA, AMNESTIC, COGNITIVE DISORDERS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GYRUS CINGULI; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MAMILLARY BODIES; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 68549134916     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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