Influence of environmental enrichment on hippocampal synapses in adolescent offspring of mothers exposed to prenatal stress

Neural Regeneration Research

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 378-382

  Peng, Yaojin ^a   Jian, Xiaohong ^a   Liu, Lihua ^a   Tong, Jianbin ^b   Lei, Deliang ^b  

^a HUNAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Central South University   (China)

Author keywords

Dendritic spine; Enriched environment; Hippocampus; Neural regeneration; Offspring; Prenatal stress; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SYNAPSE;

EID: 79952476341     PISSN: 16735374     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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