Environmental enrichment mitigates the sex-specific effects of gestational inflammation on social engagement and the hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis-feedback system

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

Volumn 42, Issue , 2014, Pages 178-190

  Connors, E J ^a   Shaik, A N ^a   Migliore, M M ^a   Kentner, A C ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS COLLEGE OF PHARMACY AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticosterone; Environmental enrichment; Gestational inflammation; Glucocorticoid receptor; Glutamate; Hippocampus; NR2B receptor subunit; Social interaction; Spatial discrimination

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR 2B; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE;

ANIMAL CARE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BIRTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSPRAY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL INFLAMMATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS ADRENAL SYSTEM; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INFLAMMATION; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; NATIONAL HEALTH ORGANIZATION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PROGENY; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL HOUSING; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOLOGY; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; HOUSING, ANIMAL; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; INFLAMMATION; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; PITUITARY-ADRENAL SYSTEM; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84908655893     PISSN: 08891591     EISSN: 10902139     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbi.2014.06.020     Document Type: Article

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