Short- and long-term consequences of different early environmental conditions on central immunoreactive oxytocin and arginine vasopressin levels in male rats

Neuropeptides

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 391-398

  Oreland, Sadia ^a   Gustafsson Ericson, Lisa ^a   Nylander, Ingrid ^a  

^a UPPSALA UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Early life experience; Hypothalamus; Maternal separation; Pituitary gland; Stress

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; OXYTOCIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; OXYTOCIN; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIME FACTORS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 77956188998     PISSN: 01434179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.npep.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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