Chronic gestational stress leads to depressive-like behavior and compromises medial prefrontal cortex structure and function during the postpartum period

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2014, Pages

  Leuner, Benedetta ^a   Fredericks, Peter J ^a   Nealer, Connor ^a   Albin Brooks, Christopher ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHRONIC STRESS; DENDRITIC SPINE; FEMALE; MATERNAL STRESS; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MENTAL DISEASE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PUERPERAL DEPRESSION; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; ANIMAL; CHRONIC DISEASE; LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PREGNANCY; PUERPERIUM; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VALIDATION STUDY;

ANIMALS; CHRONIC DISEASE; FEMALE; LEARNING; POSTPARTUM PERIOD; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL;

EID: 84897037572     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0089912     Document Type: Article

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