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Water maze performance and hippocampal weight of prenatally stressed rats
T Szuran1, E Zimmermann, H Welzl
1Department of Animal Science, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zürich.
Behavioural Brain Research
|December 15, 1994
Abstract:
Prenatally stressed rats were tested for water maze performance with the water temperature kept at 18 degrees C (low stress) or cooled down to 12 degrees C (high stress). When the platform had been removed from the pool and the water was kept at 12 degrees C, prenatally stressed males--but not females--spent more time searching for the platform in the correct quadrant of the pool than their controls. Prenatal stress reduced hippocampal weight in both sexes.