Prolonged maternal separation decreases granule cell number in the dentate gyrus of 3-week-old male rats

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 139-144

  Oreland, Sadia ^a   Nylander, Ingrid ^a   Pickering, Chris ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Development; Early life stress; Hippocampus; Immunohistochemistry; Neurotoxicity; Stereology

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; NEURON SPECIFIC NUCLEAR PROTEIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY, SEPARATION; CELL COUNT; DENTATE GYRUS; MALE; MOTHERS; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 77649189130     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2009.12.005     Document Type: Article

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