Involvement of NR1, NR2A different expression in brain regions in anxiety-like behavior of prenatally stressed offspring

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 257, Issue , 2013, Pages 1-7

  Sun, Hongli ^a   Jia, Ning ^a   Guan, Lixia ^a   Su, Qing ^b   Wang, Dan ^c   Li, Hui ^b   Zhu, Zhongliang ^a,c  

^a XI'AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b THE FIRST AFFILIATED HOSPITAL OF XI AN JIAOTONG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Anxiety like behavior; NR1; NR2A; Offspring; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 1; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2A;

ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORPUS STRIATUM; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; WESTERN BLOTTING;

ANXIETY-LIKE BEHAVIOR; NR1; NR2A; OFFSPRING; PRENATAL STRESS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BRAIN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE;

EID: 84884970235     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.08.044     Document Type: Article

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