Deficits in cognitive flexibility induced by chronic unpredictable stress are associated with impaired glutamate neurotransmission in the rat medial prefrontal cortex

Neuroscience

Volumn 346, Issue , 2017, Pages 284-297

  Jett, Julianne D ^a   Bulin, Sarah E ^a   Hatherall, Lauren C ^a   McCartney, Carlie M ^a   Morilak, David A ^a  

^a Mays Cancer Center at UT Health San Antonio   (United States)

Author keywords

attentional set shifting; chronic unpredictable stress; cognitive flexibility; glutamate; medial prefrontal cortex; mediodorsal thalamus

Indexed keywords

ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETON ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; AMPA RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE RECEPTOR; GLUTAMIC ACID; MESSENGER RNA; N METHYL DEXTRO ASPARTIC ACID RECEPTOR; ACTIVITY REGULATED CYTOSKELETAL-ASSOCIATED PROTEIN; CYTOSKELETON PROTEIN; NERVE PROTEIN; PROTEIN C JUN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CHRONIC UNPREDICTABLE STRESS; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; GLUTAMATE NEUROTRANSMISSION; MALE; MEDIAL PREFRONTAL CORTEX; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PHARMACOLOGICAL STIMULATION; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; RECEPTOR BLOCKING; TASK PERFORMANCE; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS; VENTRAL HIPPOCAMPUS; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; DRUG EFFECTS; HIPPOCAMPUS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; ATTENTION; COGNITION; CYTOSKELETAL PROTEINS; GLUTAMIC ACID; HIPPOCAMPUS; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; NERVE TISSUE PROTEINS; PREFRONTAL CORTEX; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-JUN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, AMPA; RECEPTORS, N-METHYL-D-ASPARTATE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 85012235871     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: 18737544     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2017.01.017     Document Type: Article

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