Early postnatal stress alters extracellular signal-regulated kinase signaling in the corticolimbic system modulating emotional circuitry in adult rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 35, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-145

  Ishikawa, Shuhei ^a   Saito, Yasuhiro ^a   Yanagawa, Yoshiki ^a   Otani, Satoru ^b   Hiraide, Sachiko ^a   Shimamura, Kei Ichi ^a   Matsumoto, Machiko ^a   Togashi, Hiroko ^a  

^a HEALTH SCIENCES UNIVERSITY OF HOKKAIDO   (Japan)

^b SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Early stress exposure; ERK activation; Fear extinction; Fear retrieval; Hippocampus; Prefrontal cortex

Indexed keywords

CYCLOSERINE; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVERSION THERAPY; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; EARLY POSTNATAL STRESS; EMOTION; FEAR EXTINCTION; FEAR RETREIVAL; FOOTSHOCK; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; JUVENILE STRESS MODEL; LIMBIC CORTEX; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRAINING;

ANIMALS; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); ENZYME ACTIVATION; EXTINCTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; EXTRACELLULAR SIGNAL-REGULATED MAP KINASES; FEAR; HIPPOCAMPUS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MAP KINASE SIGNALING SYSTEM; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 84855256945     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07921.x     Document Type: Article

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