Effects of neonatal stress on markers of synaptic plasticity in the hippocampus: Implications for spatial memory

Hippocampus

Volumn 19, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 1222-1231

  Aisa, Bárbara ^a   Elizalde, Natalia ^a   Tordera, Rosa ^a   Lasheras, Berta ^a   Del Río, Joaquín ^a   Ramírez, Maria J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NAVARRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Cell proliferation; Maternal separation; Neural cell adhesion molecule; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; MESSENGER RNA; NERVE CELL ADHESION MOLECULE; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL PROLIFERATION; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; NEURAL CELL ADHESION MOLECULES; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROTEIN ISOFORMS; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RNA, MESSENGER; SPACE PERCEPTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPSES; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

EID: 71849093189     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20586     Document Type: Article

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