Maternal separation decreases adult hippocampal cell proliferation and impairs cognitive performance but has little effect on stress sensitivity and anxiety in adult Wistar rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 552-560

  Hulshof, Henriëtte J ^a,b   Novati, Arianna ^a   Sgoifo, Andrea ^c   Luiten, Paul G M ^a   Den Boer, Johan A ^b   Meerlo, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

ACTH; Anxiety like behavior; Corticosterone; HPA axis; Neonatal stress; Neurogenesis

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; BRAIN CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL DIFFERENTIATION; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; FOOTSHOCK; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

ADULT STEM CELLS; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; CRITICAL PERIOD (PSYCHOLOGY); EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RANDOM ALLOCATION; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 78149495829     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2010.08.038     Document Type: Article

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