Prenatal immune activation in mice blocks the effects of environmental enrichment on exploratory behavior and microglia density

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 67, Issue , 2016, Pages 10-20

  Buschert, Jens ^a   Sakalem, Marna E ^a   Saffari, Roja ^a   Hohoff, Christa ^a   Rothermundt, Matthias ^a,b   Arolt, Volker ^a   Zhang, Weiqi ^a   Ambrée, Oliver ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

^b St Rochus Hospital   (Germany)

Author keywords

Environmental enrichment; Maternal immune stimulation; Mouse model; PolyI:C; Schizophrenia

Indexed keywords

AMPHETAMINE; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; POLYINOSINIC POLYCYTIDYLIC ACID; SODIUM CHLORIDE; CENTRAL STIMULANT AGENT; CORTICOSTERONE; DOPAMINE RECEPTOR; INTERFERON INDUCING AGENT;

ADULT; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; IMMUNE RESPONSE; LOCOMOTION; MALE; MICROGLIA DENSITY; MOUSE; NERVOUS SYSTEM DEVELOPMENT; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRENATAL IMMUNE ACTIVATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; PROGENY; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SOCIAL INTERACTION; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMAL; BLOOD; BRAIN; CHEMICALLY INDUCED; DISEASE MODEL; DRUG EFFECTS; ENVIRONMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; MEMORY; METABOLISM; MICROGLIA; NURSING; PATHOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPY;

AGE FACTORS; AMPHETAMINE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; BRAIN; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM STIMULANTS; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; ENVIRONMENT; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INTERFERON INDUCERS; MALE; MEMORY; MICE; MICROGLIA; POLY I-C; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; PROBLEM SOLVING; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STEREOTYPED BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84954548162     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: 18784216     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pnpbp.2016.01.005     Document Type: Article

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