Early experience alters limbic forebrain Fos responses to a stressful interoceptive stimulus in young adult rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 100, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 105-115

  Koehnle, Thomas J ^a   Rinaman, Linda ^b  

^a HIRAM COLLEGE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

BNST; Fos; LiCl; Maternal separation

Indexed keywords

LITHIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEIN FOS; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN STEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; FOREBRAIN; LIMBIC CORTEX; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NEUROMODULATION; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN INDUCTION; RAT; REARING; STRIA TERMINALIS;

ADJUVANTS, IMMUNOLOGIC; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LITHIUM CHLORIDE; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PROSENCEPHALON; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 77950957774     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2010.02.006     Document Type: Article

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