Synaptic number changes in the medial prefrontal cortex across adolescence in male and female rats: A role for pubertal onset

Synapse

Volumn 70, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 361-368

  Drzewiecki, Carly M ^a   Willing, Jari ^a   Juraska, Janice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

Author keywords

pruning; puberty; stereology; synapse; synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ADOLESCENT; ADULTHOOD; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; JUVENILE; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NONHUMAN; ONSET AGE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBERTY; RAT; STEREOMETRY; SYNAPSE;

EID: 84978430403     PISSN: 08874476     EISSN: 10982396     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/syn.21909     Document Type: Article

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