An Investigation of the Effects of Maternal Separation and Novelty on Central Mechanisms Mediating Pituitary-Adrenal Activity in Infant Guinea Pigs (Cavia porcellus)

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 124, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 800-809

  Maken, Deborah S ^a   Weinberg, Joanne ^b   Cool, David R ^c   Hennessy, Michael B ^c  

^a WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c WRIGHT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; Maternal separation; Medial amygdala; Paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOTROPIN BLOOD LEVEL; GENE EXPRESSION; GUINEA PIG; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS PERIVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NONHUMAN; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 78650147116     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: 19390084     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0021465     Document Type: Article

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