Neonatal handling and environmental enrichment increase the expression of GAP-43 in the hippocampus and promote cognitive abilities in prenatally stressed rat offspring

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 522, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-5

  Zhang, Zhengyu ^a   Zhang, Hua ^b   Du, Baoling ^a   Chen, Zhiqiang ^c  

^a GUANGZHOU MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF JINAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c LIAOCHENG PEOPLE'S HOSPITAL   (China)

Author keywords

CORT; GAP 43; Hippocampus; P; Rat; Stress

Indexed keywords

NEUROMODULIN; P45 PROTEIN; PROTEIN; PROTEIN P20; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; UPREGULATION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; COGNITION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GAP-43 PROTEIN; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84863779758     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.05.039     Document Type: Article

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