Early Life Stress Differentially Modulates Distinct Forms of Brain Plasticity in Young and Adult Mice

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Herpfer, Inga ^a   Hezel, Henning ^a   Reichardt, Wilfried ^b   Clark, Kristin ^a   Geiger, Julia ^b   Gross, Claus M ^a   Heyer, Andrea ^a   Neagu, Valentin ^a   Bhatia, Harsharan ^a   Atas, Hasan C ^a   Fiebich, Bernd L ^a   Bischofberger, Josef ^c   Haas, Carola A ^a   Lieb, Klaus ^d   Normann, Claus ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BASEL   (Switzerland)

^d UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER MAINZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROKININ 1 RECEPTOR; NEUROKININ 3 RECEPTOR; NEUROKININ B; SUBSTANCE P;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; BRAIN SIZE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENZYME IMMUNOASSAY; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILIZATION; IMMUNOASSAY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PATCH CLAMP; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA ISOLATION; VOLUMETRY;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMOBILITY RESPONSE, TONIC; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROGENESIS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEUROPEPTIDES; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUBSTANCE P; SWIMMING;

ANIMALIA; MUS;

EID: 84867158135     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0046004     Document Type: Article

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