Acute footshock-stress increases spatial learning-memory and correlates to increased hippocampal BDNF and VEGF and cell numbers in adolescent male and female rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 514, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 141-146

  Uysal, Nazan ^a   Sisman, Ali Riza ^a   Dayi, Ayfer ^a   Ozbal, Seda ^a   Cetin, Ferihan ^a   Baykara, Basak ^a   Aksu, Ilkay ^a   Tas, Aysegul ^a   Cavus, Secil Ayca ^a   Gonenc Arda, Sevil ^a   Buyuk, Erkan ^b,c  

^a DOKUZ EYLUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Adolescent; BDNF; Footshock; Hippocampus; Learning and memory; VEGF

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOSTERONE; VASCULOTROPIN;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; APOPTOSIS; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; FOOTSHOCK; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; STRESS; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMALS; APOPTOSIS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DNA FRAGMENTATION; ELECTROSHOCK; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEURONS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX FACTORS; SPATIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR A;

EID: 84861840431     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.02.049     Document Type: Article

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