Chronic stress-induced alterations of dendritic spine subtypes predict functional decrements in an hypothalamo-pituitary-adrenal-inhibitory prefrontal circuit

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 33, Issue 36, 2013, Pages 14379-14391

  Radley, Jason J ^a   Anderson, Rachel M ^a   Hamilton, Bradley A ^a   Alcock, Jennifer A ^a   Romig Martin, Sara A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC SPINE; FUNCTIONAL ANATOMY; HISTOLOGY; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYBRIDIZATION HISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MESENCEPHALON; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NERVE RECONSTRUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; DENDRITIC SPINES; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPSES;

EID: 84883315917     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: 15292401     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.0287-13.2013     Document Type: Article

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