Behavioral deficits, abnormal corticosterone, and reduced prefrontal metabolites of adolescent rats subject to early life stress

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 545, Issue , 2013, Pages 132-137

  Zhang, Jie ^a,b,c   Abdallah, Chadi G ^c,d   Chen, Yaowen ^e   Huang, Tianhua ^f   Huang, Qingjun ^a   Xu, Chongtao ^a   Xiao, Yeyu ^b   Liu, Yuzhen ^g   Ding, Yan ^b   Wu, Renhua ^b  

^a SHANDONG MENTAL HEALTH CENTER   (China)

^b THE SECOND AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d VA CONNECTICUT HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

^e SHANTOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^f SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

^g THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF SHANTOU UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE   (China)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Early life stress; Glutamate; Magnetic resonance spectroscopy; Prefrontal cortex; Rat

Indexed keywords

CHOLINE; CORTICOSTERONE; CREATINE; GLUTAMIC ACID; GLUTAMINE; INOSITOL; N ACETYLASPARTIC ACID;

ADOLESCENCE; ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; MALE; METABOLITE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTON NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE; RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; CORTICOSTERONE; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MENTAL DISORDERS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84878561475     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: 18727972     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neulet.2013.04.035     Document Type: Article

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