Dendritic morphology changes in neurons from the ventral hippocampus, amygdala and nucleus accumbens in rats with neonatal lesions into the prefrontal cortex

Synapse

Volumn 69, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 314-325

  Lazcano, Zayda ^a   Solis, Oscar ^a   Díaz, Alfonso ^a   Brambila, Eduardo ^a   Aguilar Alonso, Patricia ^a   Guevara, Jorge ^b   Flores, Gonzalo ^a  

^a BENEMÉRITA UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE PUEBLA   (Mexico)

^b UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

Author keywords

Basolateral amygdale; Dendritic morphology; Locomotor activity; Neonatal prefrontal cortex lesion; Neurodevelopment; Nucleus accumbens; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BASOLATERAL AMYGDALA; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; DOPAMINERGIC TRANSMISSION; GOLGI STAIN; LIMBIC CORTEX; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MORPHOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYRAMIDAL NERVE CELL; RAT; SCHIZOPHRENIA; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; ANIMAL; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HIPPOCAMPUS; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; DENDRITES; HIPPOCAMPUS; LOCOMOTION; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONS; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 84928405416     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.21815     Document Type: Article

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