Pre-gestational stress alters stress-response of pubertal offspring rat in sexually dimorphic and hemispherically asymmetric manner

BMC Neuroscience

Volumn 14, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Huang, Yuejun ^a   Chen, Sihong ^a   Xu, Hongwu ^a   Yu, Xiaochan ^a   Lai, Huihong ^a   Ho, Guyu ^a   Huang, Qingjun ^b   Shi, Xuechuan ^a  

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

^b Ministry of Health   (China)

Author keywords

Catechol O methyltransferase; Dopamine; Dopamine transporter; Medial prefrontal cortex; Norepinephrine transporter; Stress

Indexed keywords

CATECHOL METHYLTRANSFERASE; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; NORADRENALIN TRANSPORTER;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN ASYMMETRY; CLIMBING; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; FORCED SWIMMING TEST; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; MALE; MATERNAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PROGENY; PUBERTY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SUGAR INTAKE;

3,4-DIHYDROXYPHENYLACETIC ACID; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BODY WEIGHT; CATECHOL O-METHYLTRANSFERASE; CATECHOLAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; CUES; DOPAMINE; EATING; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; MALE; MOVEMENT; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING;

EID: 84879804254     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2202-14-67     Document Type: Article

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