Effect of maternal separation and chronic stress on hippocampal-dependent memory in young adult rats: Evidence for the match-mismatch hypothesis

Stress

Volumn 17, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 445-450

  Zalosnik, M I ^a   Pollano, A ^a   Trujillo, V ^a   Suarez M M ^a   Durando, P E ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CÓRDOBA   (Argentina)

Author keywords

Contextual memory; Developmental programming; Early environment; Early maternal separation; Hippocampus; Stereology; Variable stress

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CHRONIC STRESS; CONDITIONING; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; HIPPOCAMPAL CA1 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA2 REGION; HIPPOCAMPAL CA3 REGION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MEMORY; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; WISTAR RAT; YOUNG ADULT; ANIMAL; CASE CONTROL STUDY; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEMORY DISORDER; MENTAL STRESS; NEWBORN; ORGAN SIZE; PATHOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CONDITIONING (PSYCHOLOGY); HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MEMORY DISORDERS; ORGAN SIZE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84906737701     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2014.936005     Document Type: Article

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