Prepubertal stress and hippocampal function: Sex-specific effects

Hippocampus

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 684-692

  Brydges, Nichola M ^a,b   Wood, Emma R ^c   Holmes, Megan C ^a   Hall, Jeremy ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b CARDIFF UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Behavior; Contextual fear; Early life stress; Sex differences; Spatial navigation

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEAR; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; LATENT PERIOD; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREPUBERTAL STRESS; PREPUBERTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFERENCE MEMORY; SEX DIFFERENCE; SPATIAL LEARNING; SPATIAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; CATALEPSY; CONDITIONING; DISEASE MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; INBRED RAT STRAIN; MENTAL STRESS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPATIAL ORIENTATION;

ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEAR; FEMALE; FREEZING REACTION, CATALEPTIC; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SPATIAL MEMORY; SPATIAL NAVIGATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84900531268     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22259     Document Type: Article

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