Brief social isolation in early adolescence affects reversal learning and forebrain BDNF expression in adult rats

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 86, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 173-178

  Han, Xiao ^a   Wang, Weiwen ^b   Xue, Xiaofang ^a   Shao, Feng ^a   Li, Nanxin ^a,c  

^a PEKING UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; BDNF; Hippocampus; Morris water maze; Nucleus accumbens; Prefrontal cortex; Reversal learning; Social isolation

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR;

ADOLESCENCE; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; BRAIN DISEASE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DOWN REGULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FOREBRAIN; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REARING; REHABILITATION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; UPREGULATION; WEANING;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROSENCEPHALON; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REVERSAL LEARNING; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

EID: 80053234219     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: 18732747     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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