Maternal Care Received by Individual Pups Correlates with Adult CA1 Dendritic Morphology and Synaptic Plasticity in a Sex-Dependent Manner

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 331-340

  van Hasselt, F N ^a   Boudewijns, Z S R M ^a   Van Der Knaap, N J F ^a   Krugers, H J ^a   Joels M ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

CA1; Long term potentiation; Maternal care; Morphology

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEMALE; GROOMING; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; LICKING; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUP (RODENT); PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CELL SHAPE; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84855981946     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: 13652826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2011.02233.x     Document Type: Article

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