Long-term effects of neonatal handling on Mu-opioid receptor levels in the brain of the offspring

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 51, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 439-449

  Kiosterakis, Georgios ^a   Stamatakis, Antonios ^a   Diamantopoulou, Anastasia ^a   Fameli, Maria ^a   Stylianopoulou, Fotini ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Anxiety; Autoradiographyof in vitro binding; Early handling; Early life experience; Elevated plus maze; Immunohistochemistry; NAc; PFC; Rattus rattus; VTA

Indexed keywords

MU OPIATE RECEPTOR;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN CARE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROGENY; RAT; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

AFFECT; AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MEMBRANE GLYCOPROTEINS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, INTERLEUKIN-1; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS RATTUS;

EID: 70349397248     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.20383     Document Type: Article

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