The timing of neuronal loss across adolescence in the medial prefrontal cortex of male and female rats

Neuroscience

Volumn 301, Issue , 2015, Pages 268-275

  Willing, J ^a   Juraska, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescence; Prefrontal cortex; Pruning; Stereology

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID;

ADOLESCENT; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN MATURATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL BODY; CELL COUNT; CELL LOSS; CELL VOLUME; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; GABAERGIC SYSTEM; GLIA; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; JUVENILE; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RAT; WHITE MATTER; AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; CYTOLOGY; LONG EVANS RAT; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; STEREOTACTIC PROCEDURE;

AGING; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; MALE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STEREOTAXIC TECHNIQUES; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84934940704     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.05.073     Document Type: Article

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