Early life stress and sex-specific sensitivity of the catecholaminergic systems in prefrontal and limbic regions of Octodon degus

Brain Structure and Function

Volumn 220, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 861-868

  Kunzler, Jan ^a   Braun, Katharina ^a,b   Bock, Joerg ^a,b  

^a OTTO VON GUERICKE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Center for Behavioral Brain Sciences   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dopamine; Early life stress; Limbic system; Prefrontal cortex; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; DOPAMINE TRANSPORTER; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ADULT; ADULT ANIMAL; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR CINGULATE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENTATE GYRUS; DOPAMINERGIC NERVE CELL; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; FEMALE ANIMAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIMBIC CORTEX; MALE; MALE ANIMAL; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OCTODON; OCTODON DEGUS; ORBITAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUTAMEN; SEX DIFFERENCE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; PARENTAL DEPRIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX;

ANIMALIA; OCTODON DEGUS; RODENTIA;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE PLASMA MEMBRANE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; FEMALE; LIMBIC SYSTEM; MALE; MATERNAL DEPRIVATION; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; OCTODON; PATERNAL DEPRIVATION; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEX FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 84923784561     PISSN: 18632653     EISSN: 18632661     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00429-013-0688-2     Document Type: Article

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