Mitral Cell Dendritic Morphology in the Adult Zebrafish Olfactory Bulb following Growth, Injury and Recovery.

The role of afferent target interactions in dendritic plasticity within the adult brain remains poorly understood. There is a paucity of data regarding the effects of deafferentation and subsequent dendritic recovery in adult brain structures. Moreover, although adult zebrafish demonstrate ongoing growth, investigations into the impact of growth on mitral cell (MC) dendritic arbor structure and complexity are lacking.

Altered gene expression and spine density in nucleus accumbens of adolescent and adult male mice exposed to emotional and physical stress.

Stressful early life experiences are implicated in lifelong health. However, little is known about the consequences of emotional stress (ES) or physical stress (PS) on neurobiology. Therefore, the following set of experiments was designed to assess changes in transcription and translation of key proteins within the nucleus accumbens (NAc).