The impact of maternal separation on the number of tyrosine hydroxylase-expressing midbrain neurons during different stages of ontogenesis

Neuroscience

Volumn 182, Issue , 2011, Pages 43-61

  Chocyk, A ^a   Przyborowska, A ^a   Dudys, D ^a   Majcher, I ^a   Mackowiak M ^a   Wedzony, K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Maternal separation; Ontogenetic changes; Stereology; Substantia nigra; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Ventral tegmental area

Indexed keywords

TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELL COUNT; CELL SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL STAGE; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA PARS RETICULATA; VENTRAL TEGMENTUM;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANTIA NIGRA; VENTRAL TEGMENTAL AREA;

EID: 79955481520     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.03.008     Document Type: Article

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