Prenatal stress alters dendritic morphology and synaptic connectivity in the prefrontal cortex and hippocampus of developing offspring

Synapse

Volumn 66, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 308-314

  Mychasiuk, Richelle ^a   Gibb, Robbin ^a   Kolb, Bryan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cerebral organization; MPFC; Neuroanatomy; Neurogenesis; OFC

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BONE DENSITY; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE ELONGATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPINE; STEREOLOGY; SYNAPSE; WEANING;

ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; DENDRITES; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84856405384     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.21512     Document Type: Article

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