The effects of prenatal stress on Alpha4 Beta2 and Alpha7 hippocampal nicotinic acetylcholine receptor levels in adult offspring

Developmental Neurobiology

Volumn 73, Issue 11, 2013, Pages 806-814

  Schulz, Kalynn M ^a,b   Andrud, Kristin M ^a   Burke, Maria B ^a,b   Pearson, Jennifer N ^b   Kreisler, Alison D ^c   Stevens, Karen E ^a,b   Leonard, Sherry ^a,b   Adams, Catherine E ^a,b  

^a VETERANS AFFAIRS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Acetylcholine; Alpha bungarotoxin; Alpha4 beta2; Alpha7; Anxiety; Asymmetry; Depression; Epibatidine; Gestation; Hippocampus; Lateralization; Maternal; Memory; Nicotinic; Prenatal stress; Psychopathology; Stress

Indexed keywords

ALPHA BUNGAROTOXIN I 125; BUNGAROTOXIN RECEPTOR; EPIBATIDINE I 125; NICOTINIC RECEPTOR ALPHA4BETA2; RADIOPHARMACEUTICAL AGENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MATERNAL STRESS; NONHUMAN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SOCIAL STRESS; WEANING;

ACETYLCHOLINE; ALPHA-BUNGAROTOXIN; ALPHA4 BETA2; ALPHA7; ANXIETY; ASYMMETRY; DEPRESSION; EPIBATIDINE; GESTATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATERALIZATION; MATERNAL; MEMORY; NICOTINIC; PRENATAL STRESS; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; STRESS;

ALPHA7 NICOTINIC ACETYLCHOLINE RECEPTOR; ANIMALS; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, NICOTINIC; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84885425906     PISSN: 19328451     EISSN: 10974695     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dneu.22097     Document Type: Article

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