Prenatal stress and early-life exposure to fluoxetine have enduring effects on anxiety and hippocampal BDNF gene expression in adult male offspring

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 427-438

  Boulle, Fabien ^a,b   Pawluski, Jodi L ^a,c   Homberg, Judith R ^d   Machiels, Barbie ^a   Kroeze, Yvet ^d   Kumar, Neha ^a   Steinbusch, Harry W M ^a   Kenis, Gunter ^a   Van den Hove, Daniel L A ^a,e  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d RADBOUD UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WÜRZBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

BDNF; Depression; Hippocampus; Neuroplasticity; Prenatal stress; Sex differences; SSRI; TrkB

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FLUOXETINE; MESSENGER RNA; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITOR;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; COMPLICATION; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; ETIOLOGY; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; FEMALE; FLUOXETINE; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; SEROTONIN UPTAKE INHIBITORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84949571202     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: 10982302     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dev.21385     Document Type: Article

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