Prenatal stress produces sexually dimorphic and regionally specific changes in gene expression in hippocampus and frontal cortex of developing rat offspring

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 531-538

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

^a UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Development; Epigenetics; Growth factors; Microarray; Neurotransmitters

Indexed keywords

GROWTH FACTOR; NEUROTRANSMITTER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; FRONTAL CORTEX; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENOME ANALYSIS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; RAT;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FRONTAL LOBE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84859101516     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: 14219859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000335524     Document Type: Article

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