Despite higher glucocorticoid levels and stress responses in female rats, both sexes exhibit similar stress-induced changes in hippocampal neurogenesis

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 234, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 357-364

  Hulshof, Henriëtte J ^a,b   Novati, Arianna ^a   Luiten, Paul G M ^a,b   Den Boer, Johan A ^b   Meerlo, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Gender differences; HPA axis; Neuronal plasticity; Oestradiol; Stress sensitivity

Indexed keywords

CELL MARKER; DOUBLECORTIN; GLUCOCORTICOID; STEROID;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL PROLIFERATION; CELL SURVIVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; MALE; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; PHYSICAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADRENOCORTICOTROPIC HORMONE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ELECTROSHOCK; ESTRADIOL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; MICROTUBULE-ASSOCIATED PROTEINS; NEUROGENESIS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OVARIECTOMY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84864402361     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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