Pregnancy or stress decrease complexity of CA3 pyramidal neurons in the hippocampus of adult female rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 227, Issue , 2012, Pages 201-210

  Pawluski, J L ^a,b   Valenca A ^a,c   Santos, A I M ^d   Costa Nunes, J P ^a,c   Steinbusch, H W M ^a   Strekalova, T ^a,c  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d NOVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Depression; Gestation; HPA; Motherhood; Plasticity; Reproduction

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN TISSUE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REPRODUCTION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CA3 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CORTICOSTERONE; DENDRITES; FEMALE; LITTER SIZE; MALE; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; RATS; SILVER STAINING; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84868222712     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.09.059     Document Type: Article

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