Limbic system activation is affected by prenatal predator exposure and postnatal environmental enrichment and further moderated by dam and sex

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 259, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Korgan, Austin C ^a   Green, Amanda D ^a   Perrot, Tara S ^a   Esser, Michael J ^a,b,c  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b IWK HEALTH CENTRE   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Febrile convulsions; Fos B; Hippocampus; HPA axis; Maternal effects; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

GLUCOCORTICOID; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR FOSB;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EPILEPSY; FEBRILE CONVULSION; FEMALE; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; GENDER; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; LITTER SIZE; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; MARE; MATERNAL STRESS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NONHUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PERINATAL PERIOD; PREDATOR STRESS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUP (RODENT); RAT; SEIZURE; SEIZURE SUSCEPTIBILITY;

FEBRILE CONVULSIONS; FOS-B; HIPPOCAMPUS; HPA AXIS; MATERNAL EFFECTS; PRENATAL STRESS;

AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEIZURES, FEBRILE; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84888058436     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2013.10.037     Document Type: Article

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