Prenatal stress decreases spatial learning and memory retrieval of the adult male offspring of rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 129, Issue , 2014, Pages 104-109

  Modir, Fatemeh ^a   Elahdadi Salmani, Mahmoud ^a   Goudarzi, Iran ^a   Lashkarboluki, Taghi ^a   Abrari, Kataneh ^a  

^a DAMGHAN UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Adult offspring; Corticosterone; Learning and memory; Morris water maze; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; FEMALE; FIRST TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; FOOD DEPRIVATION; HETEROGENEOUS SEQUENTIAL STRESS; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; LATENT PERIOD; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; MORRIS WATER MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SECOND TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; SPATIAL LEARNING; SWIMMING; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; WATER DEPRIVATION; ANIMAL; BLOOD; COMPLICATION; LEARNING DISORDERS; MAZE TEST; MEMORY DISORDERS; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; BIRTH WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; FEMALE; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; MEMORY DISORDERS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84896033528     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: 1873507X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2014.02.040     Document Type: Article

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