Prenatal infection decreases calbindin, decreases purkinje cell volume and density and produces long-term motor deficits in Sprague-Dawley rats

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 32, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 302-312

  Wallace, K ^a   Veerisetty, S ^a   Paul, I ^a   May, W ^a   Miguel Hidalgo, J J ^a   Bennett, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain development, fetal; Calbindin; Escherichia coli; Motor behavior; Purkinje neurons

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; EOSIN; HEMATOXYLIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CELL DENSITY; CELL MATURATION; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CEREBELLUM; CONTROLLED STUDY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HISTOPATHOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MOTOR COORDINATION; MOTOR DYSFUNCTION; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUP (RODENT); PURKINJE CELL; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING;

EID: 78650514882     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000319506     Document Type: Article

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