Acute effects of neonatal dexamethasone treatment on proliferation and astrocyte immunoreactivity in hippocampus and corpus callosum: Towards a rescue strategy

Brain Research

Volumn 1482, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-12

  Claessens, Sanne E F ^a   Belanoff, Joseph K ^b   Kanatsou, Sofia ^c   Lucassen, Paul J ^c   Champagne, Danielle L ^d,e   Ronald De Kloet, E ^a  

^a LEIDEN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b Corcept Therapeutics ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Astrogliosis; Brain; Development; Glucocorticoid; Mifepristone; Proliferation; Stress

Indexed keywords

DEXAMETHASONE; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; MIFEPRISTONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; ASTROCYTOSIS; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; CELL DENSITY; CELL PROLIFERATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LUNG FUNCTION; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ASTROCYTES; BODY WEIGHT; CELL COUNT; CELL PROLIFERATION; CORPUS CALLOSUM; DEXAMETHASONE; DRUG ADMINISTRATION ROUTES; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HIPPOCAMPUS; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; KI-67 ANTIGEN; MIFEPRISTONE; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

EID: 84867332064     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: 18726240     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2012.08.017     Document Type: Article

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