Mild prenatal stress-modulated behavior and neuronal spine density without affecting amphetamine sensitization

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 85-98

  Muhammad, Arif ^a   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Addiction; Amphetamine; Behavioral sensitization; Brain development; Dendritic spine density; Novel object recognition; Plasticity; Prenatal stress; Psychostimulant; Rough and tumble play

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG SENSITIZATION; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; MALE; MAZE TEST; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBJECT RELATION; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPINE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

AMPHETAMINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DENDRITIC SPINES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80053634160     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: 14219859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000324744     Document Type: Article

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