Effects of a single course of prenatal betamethasone on dendritic development in dentate gyrus granular neurons and on spatial memory in rat offspring

Neuropediatrics

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 354-361

  Bustamante, Carlos ^a   Valencia, Martina ^a   Torres, Christian ^a   González, María José ^a   Carvajal, Constanza ^a   Sandoval, Denisse ^a   Gutiérrez Rojas, Cristian ^a   Pascual, Rodrigo ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE VALPARAÍSO   (Chile)

Author keywords

betamethasone; dendritic development; spatial memory

Indexed keywords

BETAMETHASONE; MICROTUBULE ASSOCIATED PROTEIN 2;

ADOLESCENT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN HISTOLOGY; BRAIN WEIGHT; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITIC CELL; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; GRANULE CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INFANT; MALE; MEMORY DISORDER; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL DIFFERENTIATION; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NONHUMAN; PRENATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SPATIAL MEMORY; Y-MAZE TEST; ANIMAL; DENDRITE; DRUG EFFECTS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE;

ANIMALS; BETAMETHASONE; DENDRITES; DENTATE GYRUS; FEMALE; NEURONS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; SPATIAL MEMORY;

EID: 84929327237     PISSN: 0174304X     EISSN: 14391899     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1055/s-0034-1387167     Document Type: Article

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