Early life stress stimulates hippocampal reelin gene expression in a sex-specific manner: Evidence for corticosterone-mediated action

Hippocampus

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 409-420

  Gross, Claus M ^a   Flubacher, Armin ^a   Tinnes, Stefanie ^a   Heyer, Andrea ^a   Scheller, Marie ^a   Herpfer, Inga ^a   Berger, Mathias ^a   Frotscher, Michael ^a   Lieb, Klaus ^a,b   Haas, Carola A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b JOHANNES GUTENBERG UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Brain derived neurotrophic factor; Cajal Retzius cell; Development; Maternal separation; Slice culture

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; MESSENGER RNA; REELIN;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; UPREGULATION;

ANIMALS; CELL ADHESION MOLECULES, NEURONAL; CELL COUNT; CORTICOSTERONE; EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX PROTEINS; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MICE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; RNA, MESSENGER; SERINE ENDOPEPTIDASES; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84857216097     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.20907     Document Type: Article

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