Swimming exercise ameliorates depression-like behaviors induced by prenatal exposure to glucocorticoids in rats

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 524, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 119-123

  Liu, Weina ^a,b   Xu, Yongjun ^a   Lu, Jianqiang ^c   Zhang, Yanmin ^a   Sheng, Hui ^a   Ni, Xin ^a  

^a SECOND MILITARY MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TIANJIN UNIVERSITY OF SPORT   (China)

^c SHANGHAI UNIVERSITY OF SPORT   (China)

Author keywords

Depression; Glucocorticoid; Prenatal stress; Swimming exercise

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; DEXAMETHASONE; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SWIMMING; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; DEXAMETHASONE; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; MALE; PHYSICAL CONDITIONING, ANIMAL; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SWIMMING;

EID: 84865161526     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2012.07.011     Document Type: Article

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