Chronic high corticosterone reduces neurogenesis in the dentate gyrus of adult male and female rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 168, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 680-690

  Brummelte, S ^a   Galea, L A M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cell proliferation; Cell survival; Glucocorticoids; Hippocampus; Sex difference; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ESTRUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROBLAST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRESS; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CYTOLOGY; DRUG EFFECTS; ESTRUS; NERVE CELL; ORGAN SIZE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DENTATE GYRUS; ESTRUS; FEMALE; MALE; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS;

EID: 77953589444     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.04.023     Document Type: Article

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