Behavioral and neuroendocrine reactivity to stress in the WKHA/WKY inbred rat strains: A multifactorial and genetic analysis

Brain Research

Volumn 743, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 77-85

  Courvoisier, Hélène ^a   Moisan, Marie Pierre ^a   Sarrieau, Alain ^a   Hendley, Edith D ^b   Mormède, Pierre ^a  

^a INSTITUT FRANÇOIS MAGENDIE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

anxiety; F2 intercross; factor analysis; inbred rat strain; locomotor activity; neuroendocrinology; stress; WKHA rat

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN; GLUCOSE; PROLACTIN; RENIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; LOCOMOTION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRAIN DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

ANIMALS; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEAR; FEMALE; HYPERKINESIS; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; RATS; RATS, INBRED SHR; RATS, INBRED WKY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS;

EID: 0030477677     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(96)01023-2     Document Type: Article

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