Prenatal versus postnatal maternal factors in the development of infection-induced working memory impairments in mice

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 33, Issue , 2013, Pages 190-200

  Richetto, Juliet ^a   Calabrese, Francesca ^a   Meyer, Urs ^b   Riva, Marco A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Adoption; Autism; GABA; Glutamic acid decarboxylase; Maternal immune activation; Poly(I:C); Schizophrenia; Working memory

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; AMPHETAMINE; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 65; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MESSENGER RNA;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; AUTISM; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINE METABOLISM; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FEMALE; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTRAUTERINE INFECTION; LATENT PERIOD; LOCOMOTION; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDER; MOTHER; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PUBERTY; REARING; RECOGNITION; SEXUAL MATURITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; WORKING MEMORY;

ADOPTION; AUTISM; GABA; GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE; MATERNAL IMMUNE ACTIVATION; POLY(I:C); SCHIZOPHRENIA; WORKING MEMORY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL EXPOSURE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; POLY I-C; POSTNATAL CARE; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DIAGNOSIS; RANDOM ALLOCATION;

EID: 84883769290     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2013.07.006     Document Type: Article

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