Differential effects of maternal immune activation and juvenile stress on anxiety-like behaviour and physiology in adult rats: No evidence for the "double-hit hypothesis"

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 224, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 180-188

  Yee, Nicole ^a   Ribic, Adema ^a   de Roo, Christina Coenen ^b   Fuchs, Eberhard ^a,c  

^a GERMAN PRIMATE CENTER   (Germany)

^b Harlan   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Depression; Double hit hypothesis; Juvenile stress; Maternal immune activation; Poly I:C

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOKINE; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; GESTATIONAL AGE; IMMUNOSTIMULATION; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEONATAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; ORGAN WEIGHT; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RAT;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADRENAL GLANDS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ANXIETY; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; CYTOKINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); MALE; MAZE LEARNING; POLY I-C; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STARTLE REACTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 79959574574     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2011.05.040     Document Type: Article

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