Evidence for Opioid and Nonopioid Processes Mediating Adaptive Responses of Infant Rats That Are Repeatedly Isolated

Developmental Psychobiology

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 217-227

  Goodwin, Gregory A ^a   Barr, Gordon A ^a,b  

^a Columbia Univ Coll Phys Surgs ^*  (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

Development; Opioid receptors; Repeated stress; Separation cries; Stressor adaptation; Ultrasonic vocalizations

Indexed keywords

OPIATE PEPTIDE; OPIATE RECEPTOR;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL; AROUSAL; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HABITUATION; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; RAT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; THERMOREGULATION; ULTRASOUND; VOCALIZATION;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; AROUSAL; BODY TEMPERATURE REGULATION; FEMALE; HABITUATION, PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGIC; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; OPIOID PEPTIDES; PREGNANCY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OPIOID; SOCIAL ISOLATION; ULTRASONICS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 0031267263     PISSN: 00121630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1098-2302(199711)31:3<217::AID-DEV6>3.0.CO;2-V     Document Type: Article

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