Basal anxiety-like behavior predicts differences in dendritic morphology in the medial prefrontal cortex in two strains of rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 229, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 280-288

  Miller, Melinda M ^a   Morrison, John H ^b   McEwen, Bruce S ^a  

^a ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Individual differences; Lewis; Open field; Prelimbic; Resilience; Trait anxiety

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; DENDRITE; FUNCTIONAL MORPHOLOGY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; DENDRITES; ELIMINATIVE BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; INDOLES; IONTOPHORESIS; ISOQUINOLINES; MALE; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, INBRED LEW; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

EID: 84863399690     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.01.029     Document Type: Article

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