Neurobiological effects of neonatal maternal separation and post-weaning environmental enrichment

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 240, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 110-118

  Vivinetto, Ana Laura ^a   Suárez, Marta Magdalena ^a   Rivarola, María Angélica ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Glucocorticoid receptors; Hippocampus; Maternal separation; Memory

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; PROTEIN C FOS;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL ACTIVITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; EMOTIONALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; GROOMING; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROBIOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REARING; RECOGNITION; WEANING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AVOIDANCE LEARNING; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CA1 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; CA3 REGION, HIPPOCAMPAL; DENTATE GYRUS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; GROOMING; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MEMORY; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WEANING;

EID: 84871382267     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2012.11.014     Document Type: Article

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