Chronic stress reduces the number of GABAergic interneurons in the adult rat hippocampus, dorsal-ventral and region-specific differences

Hippocampus

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 393-405

  Czéh, Boldizsár ^a,b,c   Varga, Zsófia K Kalangyáné ^a,b   Henningsen, Kim ^c   Kovács, Gábor L ^a,b   Miseta, Attila ^a,b   Wiborg, Ove ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^c AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Calretinin; CMS; Dorsoventral; Neuropeptide Y; Parvalbumin; Somatostatin

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALRETININ; CHOLECYSTOKININ; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PARVALBUMIN; SOMATOSTATIN; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID RECEPTOR; CALBINDIN 1; CHOLECYSTOKININ OCTAPEPTIDE; NERVE PROTEIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENT;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL COUNT; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SUBPOPULATION; CELLS BY BODY ANATOMY; CHRONIC STRESS; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTERNEURON; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUCROSE PREFERENCE TEST; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; FOOD PREFERENCE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; WISTAR RAT;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CALBINDIN 1; CELL COUNT; CHOLECYSTOKININ; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FOOD PREFERENCES; GABAERGIC NEURONS; HIPPOCAMPUS; INTERNEURONS; MALE; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUCROSE; SWEETENING AGENTS;

EID: 84922595626     PISSN: 10509631     EISSN: 10981063     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hipo.22382     Document Type: Article

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