Changes in behaviour and body weight following a single or double social defeat in rats

Stress

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 21-32

  Meerlo, P ^a   Overkamp, G J F ^a   Daan, S ^a   Van Den Hoofdakker, R H ^a   Koolhaas, J M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Affective disorders; Animal models; Body weight; Food intake; Open field; Rat; Saccharine; Social behaviour; Social defeat; Stress

Indexed keywords

AFFECTIVE NEUROSIS; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANXIETY NEUROSIS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; LOCOMOTION; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS;

EID: 0030320137     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253899609001093     Document Type: Article

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