Iron deficiency with or without anemia impairs prepulse inhibition of the startle reflex

Hippocampus

Volumn 23, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 952-962

  Pisansky, Marc T ^a   Wickham, Robert J ^a   Su, Jianjun ^a   Fretham, Stephanie ^a,b   Yuan, Li Lian ^a   Sun, Mu ^c   Gewirtz, Jonathan C ^a   Georgieff, Michael K ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^c GLAXOSMITHKLINE   (China)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Hippocampus; Long term potentiation; Murine; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

NATURAL RESISTANCE ASSOCIATED MACROPHAGE PROTEIN 2; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEIN; IRON; SOLUTE CARRIER FAMILY 11- (PROTON-COUPLED DIVALENT METAL ION TRANSPORTERS), MEMBER 2;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; HIPPOCAMPUS; IRON DEFICIENCY; IRON DEFICIENCY ANEMIA; IRON TRANSPORT; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PREPULSE INHIBITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SENSORY GATING; STARTLE REFLEX; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; DEFICIENCY; DISEASE MODEL; FEMALE; FETAL MALNUTRITION; GENETICS; IRON METABOLISM DISORDER; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; METABOLISM; NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCY; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL;

ANEMIA, IRON-DEFICIENCY; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CATION TRANSPORT PROTEINS; DEFICIENCY DISEASES; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FETAL NUTRITION DISORDERS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IRON; IRON METABOLISM DISORDERS; LONG-TERM POTENTIATION; MICE; MICE, KNOCKOUT; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY COMPLICATIONS; PREPULSE INHIBITION; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; REFLEX, STARTLE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIALS;

EID: 84884711459     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22151     Document Type: Article

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