Maternal Style Selectively Shapes Amygdalar Development and Social Behavior in Rats Genetically Prone to High Anxiety

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 203-214

  Cohen, Joshua L ^a   Glover, Matthew E ^a   Pugh, Phyllis C ^a   Fant, Andrew D ^b   Simmons, Rebecca K ^a   Akil, Huda ^c   Kerman, Ilan A ^a   Clinton, Sarah M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b UNC Hamner Institute for Drug Safety Sciences   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; Cross fostering; Hippocampus; Microarray; Open field test; Social interaction

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGGRESSION; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; DEFECATION; DEPRESSION; EARLY LIFE STRESS; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; FEMALE; FORCED SWIM TEST; GENE CLUSTER; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GROOMING; HIGH RISK BEHAVIOR; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMPULSIVENESS; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MICROARRAY ANALYSIS; MOTHER; NONHUMAN; NOVELTY SUPPRESSED FEEDING TEST; OPEN FIELD TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL INTERACTION TEST; STRESS; AGE; AMYGDALA; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; DEVELOPMENTAL GENE; DISEASE MODEL; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGE FACTORS; AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; DEPRESSION; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, DEVELOPMENTAL; HIPPOCAMPUS; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84937641634     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: 14219859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000374108     Document Type: Article

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