Perseverative responding and neuroanatomical alterations in adult heterozygous reeler mice are mitigated by neonatal estrogen administration

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 35, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1374-1387

  Macrì, Simone ^a   Biamonte, Filippo ^b   Romano, Emilia ^a   Marino, Ramona ^b   Keller, Flavio ^b   Laviola, Giovanni ^a  

^a ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY CAMPUS BIO MEDICO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Attention; Autism spectrum disorder (ASD); Cerebellum; Cognition; Excitation to inhibition ratio; Neuroanatomy; Prefrontal cortex; Reelin; Social motivation

Indexed keywords

ESTRADIOL; PARVALBUMIN;

ADULT ANIMAL; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN TISSUE; CEREBELLUM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEAR; FEMALE; HETEROZYGOSITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; LOCOMOTION; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERSEVERATION; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PURKINJE CELL; REFLEX; ROTAROD TEST; SOCIAL INTERACTION; ULTRASOUND; WEIGHT GAIN; WILD TYPE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ESTRADIOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEAR; FEMALE; HAND STRENGTH; HETEROZYGOTE; HOMING BEHAVIOR; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICE, NEUROLOGIC MUTANTS; NERVOUS SYSTEM; NEUROANATOMY; REFLEX; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77956614292     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2010.03.012     Document Type: Article

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