Long-term behavioral programming induced by peripuberty stress in rats is accompanied by gabaergic- related alterations in the amygdala

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2014, Pages

  Tzanoulinou, Stamatina ^a   García Mompó, Clara ^b   Castillo Gómez, Esther ^b   Veenit, Vandana ^a   Nacher, Juan ^b,c,d   Sandi, Carmen ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^c CENTRO DE INVESTIGACIÓN BIOMÉDICA EN RED DE SALUD MENTAL CIBERSAM   (Spain)

^d HOSPITAL CLÍNICO UNIVERSITARIO   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; GABRA2 PROTEIN, RAT;

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BASAL AMYGDALA; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ENZYME LOCALIZATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; MEDIAL AMYGDALA; NONHUMAN; PERIPUBERTY STRESS; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PUBERTY; RAT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WEIGHT REDUCTION; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; BODY WEIGHT; HUMAN RELATION; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BODY WEIGHT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; INTERPERSONAL RELATIONS; PUBERTY; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, GABA-A; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84899700157     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0094666     Document Type: Article

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