Environmental and tactile stimulation modulates the neonatal handling effect on adult rat spatial memory

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 747-755

  Daskalakis, Nikolaos P ^a,b   Kaperoni, Maria ^a   Koros, Christos ^a   de Kloet, E Ronald ^b   Kitraki, Efthimia ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Greece)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Context; Corticosterone; Handling; Novelty; Spatial memory; Tactile stimulation

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL HOUSING; ARTICLE; CHILD REARING; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROMODULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; TACTILE DISCRIMINATION; TACTILE STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOSTERONE; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TOUCH;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 70449533138     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2009.08.013     Document Type: Article

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