Dissociation between adrenal tyrosinehydroxylase and phenylethanolamine N-methyltransferase activities following repeated experience of defeats in individually housed male DBA/2J mice

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 59, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1117-1122

  Haemisch, Andreas ^a,b   Gärtner, Klaus ^a  

^a HANNOVER MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Germany)

^b FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aggressive behavior; Corticosteroids; Defeats; Dominance catecholamines; Isolation; Mice; PNMT; TH

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N METHYLTRANSFERASE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; DISSOCIATION; ENZYME ACTIVITY; ENZYME RELEASE; HELPLESSNESS; HORMONE DETERMINATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ADAPTATION;

ADRENAL GLANDS; ANIMALS; BODY WEIGHT; CORTICOSTERONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED DBA; ORGAN SIZE; PHENYLETHANOLAMINE N-METHYLTRANSFERASE; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0029888424     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0031-9384(95)02174-4     Document Type: Article

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