Chronic stress-induced disruption of the astrocyte network is driven by structural atrophy and not loss of astrocytes

Acta Neuropathologica

Volumn 126, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 75-91

  Tynan, Ross J ^a,b,c   Beynon, Sarah B ^a,b,c   Hinwood, Madeleine ^a,b,c   Johnson, Sarah J ^a   Nilsson, Michael ^b,c   Woods, Jason J ^a,b,c   Walker, Frederick R ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c HUNTER MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Astrocyte; Chronic stress; GFAP; Infralimbic prefrontal cortex; S100

Indexed keywords

GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; PROTEIN S100B;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN ATROPHY; CELL COUNT; CELL STRESS; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL VOLUME; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT;

ANIMALS; ASTROCYTES; ATROPHY; BRAIN; CELL COUNT; CHRONIC DISEASE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; MALE; NEUROIMAGING; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879600450     PISSN: 00016322     EISSN: 14320533     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00401-013-1102-0     Document Type: Article

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