Sex-Specific Effects of Prenatal Stress on Bdnf Expression in Response to an Acute Challenge in Rats: a Role for Gadd45β

Molecular Neurobiology

Volumn 53, Issue 10, 2016, Pages 7037-7047

  Luoni, A ^a   Berry, A ^b   Raggi, C ^b   Bellisario, V ^b   Cirulli, F ^b   Riva, M A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MILAN   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO SUPERIORE DI SANITÀ   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acute stress; Bdnf; Gadd45 ; Gender effect; Prenatal restraint stress

Indexed keywords

BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; GLUCOCORTICOID RECEPTOR; GROWTH ARREST AND DNA DAMAGE INDUCIBLE PROTEIN 45; MESSENGER RNA; SIGNAL PEPTIDE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BDNF GENE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA MODIFICATION; EPIGENETICS; FEMALE; GADD45 BETA GENE; GENDER; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENE FUNCTION; GENETIC TRAIT; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PRENATAL STRESS; RAT; UPREGULATION; AGING; ANIMAL; GENETICS; METABOLISM; PATHOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGICAL STRESS; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGING; ANIMALS; BRAIN-DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, GLUCOCORTICOID; RNA, MESSENGER; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS, PHYSIOLOGICAL; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84949979279     PISSN: 08937648     EISSN: 15591182     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12035-015-9569-4     Document Type: Article

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