A Single Postnatal Dose of Dexamethasone Enhances Memory of Rat Pups Later in Life.

Postnatal dexamethasone (Dex) therapy is associated with adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes, which might be related to its timing of administration. We used time-dated pregnant Wistar albino rats, whose litters were divided into experimental (Dex) and control groups intraperitoneally administered o...

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Main Authors: Kuen-Jer Tsai, Chun-I Sze, Yung-Chieh Lin, Yuh-Jyh Lin, Ting-Hui Hsieh, Chyi-Her Lin
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5087852?pdf=render