Acute Physiological Stress Promotes Clustering of Synaptic Markers and Alters Spine Morphology in the Hippocampus

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 10, 2013, Pages

  Sebastian, Veronica ^a   Estil, Jim Brian ^a   Chen, Daniel ^a   Schrott, Lisa M ^b   Serrano, Peter A ^a,c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^c CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR 2; POSTSYNAPTIC DENSITY PROTEIN 95; PROTEIN KINASE; PROTEIN KINASE M ZETA; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; AMPA RECEPTOR; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; DLGH4 PROTEIN, RAT; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR IONOTROPIC, AMPA 2; MEMBRANE PROTEIN; PROTEIN KINASE C; PROTEIN KINASE C ZETA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ACUTE STRESS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DENDRITIC SPINE; DENTATE GYRUS; FILOPODIUM; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MAZE TEST; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MEMORY DISORDER; NERVE CELL CULTURE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPATIAL MEMORY; SYNAPSE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; GOLGI COMPLEX; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; DNA PRIMERS; DNA, COMPLEMENTARY; DOWN-REGULATION; FISH PROTEINS; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GROWTH HORMONE; HYDROCORTISONE; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; ONCORHYNCHUS KISUTCH; PITUITARY GLAND; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REAL-TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RECEPTORS, SOMATOTROPIN; RNA, MESSENGER; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CORTICOSTERONE; DENDRITIC SPINES; GOLGI APPARATUS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMBRANE PROTEINS; PROTEIN KINASE C; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84886259010     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0079077     Document Type: Article

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