Prefrontal cortex, hippocampus, and basolateral amygdala plasticity in a rat model of autism spectrum

Synapse

Volumn 68, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 468-473

  Sosa Díaz, Nuvia ^a   Bringas, Maria Elena ^a   Atzori, Marco ^b,c   Flores, Gonzalo ^a  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE SAN LUIS POTOSÍ   (Mexico)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Autism; Cortical thickness; Hippocampus; Prefrontal cortex; Valproic acid

Indexed keywords

VALPROIC ACID;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICAL THICKNESS (BRAIN); EMBRYO; FEMALE; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL DRUG EXPOSURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; RAT MODEL; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MALE; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BASOLATERAL NUCLEAR COMPLEX; CHILD DEVELOPMENT DISORDERS, PERVASIVE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; VALPROIC ACID;

EID: 84906081432     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.21759     Document Type: Article

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