Lactation reduces stress-caused dopaminergic activity and enhances GABAergic activity in the rat medial prefrontal cortex

Journal of Molecular Neuroscience

Volumn 52, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 515-524

  Arriaga Avila, Virginia ^a   Martínez Abundis, Eduardo ^a,b   Cárdenas Morales, Beatriz ^c   Mercado Gómez, Octavio ^a   Aburto Arciniega, Erick ^a   Miranda Martínez, Alfredo ^a   Kendrick, Keith M ^d   Guevara Guzmán, Rosalinda ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD JUÁREZ AUTÓNOMA DE TABASCO   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA BENITO JUÁREZ DE OAXACA   (Mexico)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ELECTRONIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

Author keywords

Dopamine; GABA; Glutamate; Lactation; mPFC; Stress

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; DOPAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDE Y2 RECEPTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE Y RECEPTOR;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOPAMINERGIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; LEFT HEMISPHERE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR DOWN REGULATION; VENTROMEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; VIRGINITY; ANIMAL; DOWN REGULATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; WISTAR RAT;

ANIMALS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOPAMINE; DOWN-REGULATION; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMIC ACID; LACTATION; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MICRODIALYSIS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D1; RECEPTORS, NEUROPEPTIDE Y; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84899084591     PISSN: 08958696     EISSN: 15591166     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12031-013-0104-7     Document Type: Article

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