Individual differences in plasma catecholamine and corticosterone stress responses of wild-type rats: Relationship with aggression

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 1403-1407

  Sgoifo, Andrea ^a,b   De Boer, Sietse F ^a   Haller, Jozsef ^a,c   Koolhaas, Jaap M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Aggression; Coping strategies; Plasma catecholamines; Plasma corticosterone; Stress

Indexed keywords

ADRENALIN; CORTICOSTERONE; NORADRENALIN;

AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE BLOOD LEVEL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPING BEHAVIOR; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NORADRENALIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL PROBLEM; STRESS;

EID: 0030561317     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00229-6     Document Type: Article

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