Prenatal stress differentially alters brain-derived neurotrophic factor expression and signaling across rat strains

Neuroscience

Volumn 187, Issue , 2011, Pages 24-35

  Neeley, E W ^a   Berger, R ^a   Koenig, J I ^b   Leonard, S ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b MARYLAND PSYCHIATRIC RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^c VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF); Development.; HPA axis; Prenatal stress; Rat; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE 1;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BDNF GENE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENZYME PHOSPHORYLATION; FEMALE; FISCHER 344 RAT; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; LEWIS RAT; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN CLEAVAGE; PROTEIN PROCESSING; RAT; RAT STRAIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

ANIMALS; BLOTTING, WESTERN; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79957904400     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2011.03.065     Document Type: Article

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