Stress and the pregnant female: Impact on hippocampal cell proliferation, but not affective-like behaviors

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 572-580

  Pawluski, Jodi L ^a   van den Hove, Daniël L A ^a   Rayen, Ine ^a   Prickaerts, Jos ^a   Steinbusch, Harry W M ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Cell proliferation; Dentate gyrus; Depression; Gestation; Hippocampus; Motherhood; Neurogenesis; Pregnancy; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

AGE; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; MAZE TEST; MOOD DISORDER; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; WEIGHT CHANGE;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; ESTROUS CYCLE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 79954792477     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2011.02.012     Document Type: Article

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