Effects of maternal hyperleptinaemia during lactation on short-term memory/learning, anxiety-like and novelty-seeking behavioral traits of adult male rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 206, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 147-150

  Fraga Marques, Mabel C ^a   Moura, Egberto G ^a   Silva, Juliana Oliveira ^a   Claudio Neto, Sylvio ^a   Pereira Toste, Fernanda ^a   Passos, Magna C F ^b   Lisboa, Patrícia C ^a   Manhães, Alex C ^a  

^a Instituto de Biologia Roberto Alcantara Gomes   (Brazil)

^b Centro Biomedico   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Hyperleptinaemia; Lactation; Memory; Novelty seeking; Programming; Rats

Indexed keywords

LEPTIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPERLEPTINEMIA; LACTATION; LEARNING; MALE; MATERNAL NUTRITION; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; LACTATION; LEPTIN; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 70350341480     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2009.08.029     Document Type: Article

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