Anxiety-like and depression-like behavior in Maudsley reactive (MR) and non-reactive (NMRA) rats

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 491-501

  Commissaris, Randall L ^a,b   Verbanac, John S ^a   Markovska, Victoria L ^a   Altman, Harvey J ^b   Hill, Timothy J ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Conflict; Depression; Maudsley rats

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; CONFLICT; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; NONHUMAN; RAT; SHOCK; STRAIN DIFFERENCE;

EID: 0029891623     PISSN: 02785846     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0278-5846(96)00012-7     Document Type: Article

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