Early-life stress affects the structural and functional plasticity of the medial prefrontal cortex in adolescent rats

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 2089-2107

  Chocyk, Agnieszka ^a   Bobula, Bartosz ^a   Dudys, Dorota ^a   Przyborowska, Aleksandra ^a   Majcher Maślanka, Iwona ^a   Hess, Grzegorz ^a   Wedzony, Krzysztof ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF PHARMACOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

AMPA receptors; Ca2+ calmodulin dependent protein kinase II; long term potentiation; maternal separation; postsynaptic density protein 95

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ALPHA AMINO 3 HYDROXY 5 METHYL 4 ISOXAZOLEPROPIONIC ACID; ALPHA CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; CALCIUM CALMODULIN DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 1; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; THREONINE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; LIGHT DARK CYCLE; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; REARING; WEANING;

AMPA RECEPTORS; CA2+/CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE II; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MATERNAL SEPARATION; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; CALCIUM-CALMODULIN-DEPENDENT PROTEIN KINASE TYPE 2; DENDRITIC SPINES; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PYRAMIDAL CELLS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, AMPA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84879844193     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: 14609568     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ejn.12208     Document Type: Article

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