The isolation and companion comfort responses of 7- and 3-day-old rat pups are modulated by drugs active at the opioid receptor

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 110, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 324-330

  Carden, Susan E ^a   Hernandez, Noreen ^b   Hofer, Myron A ^b  

^a NEW YORK STATE PSYCHIATRIC INSTITUTE   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHINE; NALTREXONE; OPIATE AGONIST; OPIATE ANTAGONIST; OPIATE RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOSE RESPONSE; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MATURITY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROUSAL; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; MORPHINE; NALTREXONE; NARCOTIC ANTAGONISTS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0029918473     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0735-7044.110.2.324     Document Type: Article

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