Female Early Adult Depression Results in Detrimental Impacts on the Behavioral Performance and Brain Development in Offspring

CNS Neuroscience and Therapeutics

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 461-470

  Gong, Yu ^a   Sun, Xiu Lan ^a   Wu, Fang Fang ^a   Su, Chun Jin ^a   Ding, Jian Hua ^a   Hu, Gang ^a  

^a NANJING MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Behavioral performance; Brain development; Depression; Early adult; Female; Offspring

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; HYDROCORTISONE;

ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN SIZE; CELL COUNT; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; EMOTION; ENZYME LINKED IMMUNOSORBENT ASSAY; FEMALE; FEMALE FERTILITY; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYDROCORTISONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAZE TEST; MEMORY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REFLEX; SURVIVAL RATE; WESTERN BLOTTING;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; BROMODEOXYURIDINE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MICE; MICE, INBRED ICR; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; REFLEX; SUCROSE; SWIMMING;

EID: 84861869017     PISSN: 17555930     EISSN: 17555949     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-5949.2012.00324.x     Document Type: Article

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