Prenatal exposure to restraint or predator stresses attenuates field excitatory postsynaptic potentials in infant rats

International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 827-831

  Saboory, Ehsan ^a   Ahmadzadeh, Ramin ^a   Roshan Milani, Shiva ^a  

^a URMIA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Iran)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Hippocampal slices; Postsynaptic evoked potentials; Prenatal stress; Rat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PILOCARPINE; POLY(METHYL METHACRYLATE);

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CAGE; CAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; INFANCY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREDATOR STRESS; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; PUP (RODENT); RAT; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIALS; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MUSCARINIC AGONISTS; PILOCARPINE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SEIZURES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS;

EID: 80455122789     PISSN: 07365748     EISSN: 1873474X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijdevneu.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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