Prenatal stress alters hippocampal neuroglia and increases anxiety in childhood

Developmental Neuroscience

Volumn 37, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 533-545

  Bennett, Greer A ^a,b   Palliser, Hannah K ^a,b   Shaw, Julia C ^a,b   Walker, David ^c   Hirst, Jonathan J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Behaviour; Guinea pigs; Neurodevelopment; Neurosteroids; Prenatal stress

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLIAL FIBRILLARY ACIDIC PROTEIN; HYDROCORTISONE; MYELIN BASIC PROTEIN; PRASTERONE; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 1; STEROID 5ALPHA REDUCTASE 2;

ABDOMINAL CIRCUMFERENCE; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BIRTH WEIGHT; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN DEVELOPMENT; BRAIN HOMOGENATE; BRAIN WEIGHT; CHILDHOOD; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; GLIA; GUINEA PIG; HEAD CIRCUMFERENCE; HEART WEIGHT; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; KIDNEY MASS; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LIVER WEIGHT; MALE; NEONATAL STRESS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; POSTNATAL GROWTH; PREMATURE LABOR; PRENATAL STRESS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; THIRD TRIMESTER PREGNANCY; WESTERN BLOTTING; ANIMAL; DISEASE MODEL; ETIOLOGY; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; PSYCHOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BLOTTING, WESTERN; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; GUINEA PIGS; HIPPOCAMPUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEUROGLIA; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84947495686     PISSN: 03785866     EISSN: 14219859     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000437302     Document Type: Article

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